While states continue to try to implement their own solutions to the nationwide nursing home staffing shortage, MACPAC recently released a brief which echoes the Biden administration’s call for minimum staffing standards and various pay incentives to help retain staff.
The brief, issued by MACPAC, outlines three main solutions...National News
Humana Inc. has started to transition Kindred at Home’s home health division to CenterWell Home Health brand, a major step in the integration of Kindred at Home’s home health operations into Humana. The transition comes at a time when, due to the pandemic, improved technology, and ongoing concerns about nursing home quality of care,...National News
A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators published in JAMA Health Forum suggests quality of care in long-term care facilities declined when private equity firms took over the facilities.
According to Skilled Nursing News, the study found private equity acquisition of nursing homes to be tied to increases in emergency...
After nearly ten years, a lawsuit challenging the quality of healthcare for more than 27,000 people incarcerated in Arizona’s prisons went to trial on Monday, November 1st.
The lawsuit was original filed in 2012, shortly before Arizona’s prison medical services were taken over by private contractors, a move that has not only...
Administrative costs such as labor account for approximately $1 trillion of healthcare spending, prompting decision makers to look for alternative methods to improve efficiency and drive down costs; a study done by Olive AI suggests 50 percent of healthcare decision makers plan to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) to curb costs by...National News
On Monday the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposal to relieve healthcare providers of Medicare's unnecessary compliance burdens.
According to the CMS press release, the updates would save healthcare providers approximately $1.12 billion annually.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma attributed this...