May 16, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Editor-in-Chief
news
CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announces a significantly smaller and more-focused project list for Round Two of the funding awards.
May 15, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Editor-in-Chief
news
This week’s Medicare fraud sting operation involved nearly 100 people across multiple states, including physicians, nurses and therapists.
May 14, 2013 Gabriel Bach, PhD, MBA
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Every country in the world--from Argentina to Zimbabwe--is confronted with the problem of caring for its elderly and paying for that care. Here's a firsthand look at how senior care is provided at a facility in France.
May 2, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
news
Several of long-term care’s biggest property owners are shedding their interest in the financially challenged skilled nursing sector.
May 1, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
news
CMS has proposed a new rule that would raise hospice payments under Medicare by $180 million next year.
May 1, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
article
Congratulations to the fourth of our five 2013 Leaders of Tomorrow: Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC. After 30 years in acute care, Segal has dedicated herself to educating LTC facilities about infection control and prevention.
April 25, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
news
Know about someone conducting sneaky Medicare billing practices? CMS’ new whistleblower proposal might pay you more than your boss does.
April 23, 2013 Bob Gatty
article
This summer will be a busy one as Congress deliberates the 2014 budget and how, without revisions, its proposed cuts to Medicare may affect the physicians, hospitals and long-term care providers.
April 22, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
news
Federal agencies and lawmakers keep revising one possible way to curb Medicaid spending growth: Per capita caps.
April 16, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
news
Next year, in an effort to improve quality of care, skilled nursing facilities may share the penalties already levied to hospitals for 30-day Medicare hospital readmissions.
April 11, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
news
President Obama's new budget, released by the White House Wednesday, includes plenty of cuts, but also contains a few surprising increases.
April 5, 2013 John F. Derr, RPh
blog
Health information technology and long-term care, once rarely found in the same conversation, are now topics of discussion within multiple policy-making bodies and workgroups.
