HHS says new rule allows healthcare workers, organizations to honor religious and moral principles in...
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 03, 2019
Individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations can decline to provide care that conflicts with their religious and moral beliefs or mission under a final rule issued Thursday by the...
Paul Ryan talks healthcare, immigration at NIC in first post-Congress speech
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 22, 2019
The Medicaid and immigration programs will be reformed, and senior living and long-term care providers can help shape the outcome, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said during Thursday’s...
Senate healthcare bill would ‘ruin Medicaid as we know it’
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 22, 2017
As Senate Republicans released a “discussion draft” of their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, advocacy organizations in senior living expressed concerns about the legislation’s...
2 arrested in assisted living fraud case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 27, 2016
Two Florida mental health counselors have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the state’s Medicaid program of more than $360,000 by submitting false claims for assisted living services.
CMS-proposed HCBS rules elicit request for extension of comment period from 5 associations
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 22, 2023
The executive directors of five national organizations are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend by at least 30 days the comment periods for two proposed rules related to access...
CMS issues reg requiring COVID-19 vaccination for long-term care workers
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 04, 2021
Long-term care and other healthcare facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs must develop COVID-19 vaccination policies for their workers by Dec. 5, and all eligible workers must...
23 states, cities, municipalities sue federal government over ‘conscience rule’
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 23, 2019
A coalition of 23 states, cities and municipalities filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government for a final rule that allows individual healthcare workers as well as healthcare organizations...
CEO who fired himself has advice, predictions for you
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 23, 2018
Chances are good that you or someone you know will be in the same position as a Virginia senior living CEO who recently decided to fire himself to try to help the community survive. That CEO has some advice...
Provider groups decry ‘chronic underfunding’ as CMS introduces HCBS quality measures
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 22, 2022
The federal government’s introduction Thursday of quality measures for the home- and community-based services offered by assisted living and other providers comes in the midst of “longstanding, chronic...
CMS announces $165 million in funding to move people from nursing homes to assisted living and other...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 24, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will make up to $165 million in supplemental funding available to states operating Money Follows the Person demonstration programs to help state Medicaid programs...