Last Friday, the White House and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their long-awaited proposal for a federal minimum staffing mandate in nursing homes.
The proposal would require Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes to provide a baseline minimum 0.55 hours of care from a registered nurse per resident per day...
The healthcare worker shortage may be approaching a breaking point. On Monday morning, 15,000 nurses in Minnesota went on strike demanding better staffing and patient care, and more strikes are expected to follow across the country.
As the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency approaches, contracts covering unionized healthcare...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it garnered more than $5.6 billion in judgements and settlements from False Claims Act cases, the largest since 2014. Over $5 billion of those claims are related directly to the healthcare industry.
From the DOJ press release:
Health care fraud was once again the leading...
