4+ hour ago  (1111+ words) Every day in the United States, 10, 000 people turn 65 " and as more of those aging Americans need help with daily activities, our long-term care crisis grows more urgent. About 70% of older adults will need some long-term care at some point, from…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (467+ words) Skilled nursing deals made up more than one-third of publicly announced mergers and acquisitions in the senior care sector last quarter, as independent living and continuing care retirement community deals remained at low levels. Overall, there were 231 public deals in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (465+ words) Nine months after a new fiscal year started, federal officials have yet to sign off on Indiana's Medicaid payment methodology, leaving providers there waiting on $462 million in funding. In Ohio, providers are owed $1 billion in state and federal payments dating…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (717+ words) One of at least 24 states that gave control of institutional long-term care to private insurance companies is walking away from the failed experiment. Indiana Gov. Michael Braun (R) on Thursday signed into law a change that will move nursing home patients…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1254+ words) Changes to a key component of the Patient Driven Payment Model remain in limbo two years after they were first proposed, but federal regulators are still poised to refine the system to accommodate for unexpected spending and evolving patient needs....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (947+ words) The collapse of a nursing home deal in Western New York after nearly three years is a prime example of how drawing out and complicating state-level change of ownership processes may "steer operators away" from the skilled nursing sector, a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (364+ words) A close relative with a recent health emergency faced the Medicare Advantage (MA) wall that we experience multiple times a day. After an ER visit that sent her home with "mild COVID, she began to decline at home. Her sons…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (313+ words) Credit to my colleague Jim Berklan for his clear-eyed take on last Thursday's PACS Group earnings call." He nailed the headline numbers. But what stuck with me after reading his story was something quieter, something bigger: a change in the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (575+ words) Civil monetary penalties can significantly reduce provider margins, increase short-term debt and threaten fiscal stability " especially when they strip providers of the equivalent of a full day's operating expenses or more. Those are the conclusions of a new study reviewing…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (672+ words) Federal regulators have thrown nursing homes in several states a short funding lifeline, but operators will still lose millions of dollars starting next year thanks to the phaseout of provider taxes on managed care organizations. While nursing home provider taxes…...