New bill targeting private equity, REIT transparency muddies waters for assisted living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 29, 2024
An updated version of a bill targeting transparency for private equity firms has removed assisted living from the mix of covered entities, but a tax code definition covering real estate investment trusts...
Amid COVID-19 test shortages, price gouging Is on the rise
Jan 10, 2022
Attorney general offices around the country have reported receiving complaints or hearing stories of price gouging.
Bill proposes study of effects of price gouging on providers during pandemic
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 02, 2022
A proposed bill calling for a study of how healthcare providers have been affected by price gouging by temporary staffing agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Long-term care leaders urge White House to intervene in anticompetitive staffing agency practices
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 27, 2022
Leaders from the country’s largest long-term care associations on Tuesday asked White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients for “assistance with an anticompetitive practice with certain...
PPE hoarding, price gouging now a crime, attorney general says; CEO cites ‘misplaced hierarchy’...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 27, 2020
It is now a crime to hoard or price-gouge personal protective equipment, drugs and certain other health and medical resources that are scarce or threatened and needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Bill aims to expose business, hiring practices of temporary staffing agencies
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 10, 2022
New legislation aimed at exposing the business and hiring practices of temporary staffing agencies follows long-term care industry complaints about price gouging and anti-competitive behaviors during the...
Pressures mount for staffing agencies accused of price gouging long-term care operators
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 31, 2022
While senior living and other long-term care leaders are being joined by other healthcare groups, and even members of Congress, to call for federal action against price-gouging by temporary staffing agencies,...
Law targeting staffing agency tactics removes providers from staffing ‘hostage situations’
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 17, 2023
Senior living advocates say passage of a nurse staffing agency bill in New Hampshire will prevent providers from being forced to pay ransom in a “sort of hostage situation” for temporary nurses.
Bill targets price-gouging, anti-competitive practices by temporary staffing agencies
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 26, 2023
Tennessee soon will join other states in reining in questionable business practices of temporary healthcare staffing agencies and their effects on assisted living communities and other types of long-term...
New law creates oversight of staffing agencies but doesn’t protect against ‘price-gouging’
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 07, 2022
A new law in Pennsylvania will create oversight and accountability for long-term care staffing agencies, but it does not address the rates they charge.