April 25, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Know about someone conducting sneaky Medicare billing practices? CMS’ new whistleblower proposal might pay you more than your boss does.
April 24, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Marilyn Tavenner has obtained a vote of confidence from a Senate committee in her bid to become the first confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in seven years.
April 23, 2013 Bob Gatty
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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
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Federal agencies and lawmakers keep revising one possible way to curb Medicaid spending growth: Per capita caps.
April 16, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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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 15, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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Clinical trials serve a crucial role in bringing new medications and treatments to the people who suffer from various disease. But it takes people willing to take the time to participate. Recently, 16 international organizations have banded together to encourage participation in Parkinson's disease trials.
April 11, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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President Obama's new budget, released by the White House Wednesday, includes plenty of cuts, but also contains a few surprising increases.
April 11, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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President Obama has proposed a $152.7 billion budget to expand access to healthcare, eliminate disability claim backlogs and end homelessness for veterans.
April 10, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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Two top industry executives share their insights on assisted living’s climate and trends. Assisted living survived the economic downturn and the collapse of the housing market intact and it is geared up and ready to continue moving forward.
April 4, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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A new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services document clarifies what tasks physicians may delegate to nurses within nursing homes serving Medicare and Medicaid residents.
April 4, 2013 Sandra Hoban, Managing Editor
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In addition to hospitals and clinics, nursing homes will be a practice setting in a newly developed Rhode Island nurse residency program.
April 2, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Senior Editor Pamela Tabar talks with Ruta Kadonoff, vice president of quality and regulatory affairs for the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), about quality in long-term care—and why being able to measure it will be important for business.
