Medicare Advantage’s prior authorization process has resulted in higher denial rates among three of the largest health ...

Staffing shortages and increased acuity of patients are playing a big role in referral placement, along with preferences and ...

A new study on Medicaid payment rates from 44 states shows Medicaid payment rates among nursing homes on average don’t adequately cover today’s costs.

This article is based on a discussion with Patrick Hoertt, Vice President of Business Development at Theoria Medical. This ...

Vice President Kamala Harris shared a new proposal on Tuesday to require Medicare to cover the costs associated with in-home ...

Tasia McCullough, director of operations for Eastern Wisconsin at Champion Care, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by ...

The number of states challenging the federal minimum staffing mandate has now grown to 21 states, after 20 states filed a ...

The nursing home sector is on a positive trajectory, and real estate investment trusts (REITs) at the forefront of ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) went over the off-cycle Medicare revalidation process for nursing homes in its latest open door ...

For some nursing homes, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) meetings serve merely as a checkbox for ...

Nursing homes looking to best utilize QAPI, or the quality assurance and performance improvement program, should think beyond ...

A dire shortage of clinical care workers in the nursing home sector along with slower growth in the number of nursing care beds is leading to added ...