3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (725+ words) High interest rates aren't slowing nursing home mergers and acquisitions. Strong fundamentals and returning bank activity, following a period of restraint, are keeping deals flowing in 2026. Although rising borrowing costs make financing more challenging, the sector's solid financial performance has…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (473+ words) Senior care bankruptcy filings, including nursing homes, increased 18% year-over-year from 11 to 13 filings, accounting for about half of all health care filings alongside the pharmaceutical subsector. The trend for increased bankruptcies in senior care and pharmaceuticals runs counter to the case…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (472+ words) PACS Group (NYSE: PACS) acquired the real estate of four skilled nursing facilities across California and Arizona. Meanwhile, its subsidiaries acquired the operations of three post-acute facilities totaling 230 beds. PACS Group announced that independently operated subsidiaries of the company have…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (659+ words) Nursing home leaders are planning to pivot away from survival mode and toward intentional, strategy-driven growth even as financial and policy headwinds " particularly around Medicaid " remain unresolved. Growth and diversification are also on many executive agendas, though tempered by a…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1031+ words) Pixabay / hainguyenrp | CC0 Nursing home dealmaking in 2025 was active but often contentious, notably with the ongoing sale of Genesis assets through December, following the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy announcement in July. The case has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers over private equity's role…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1007+ words) Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay | CC0 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has rolled out its first major change to the SNF Medicare Cost Report in 15 years, no longer accepting Resources Utilization Groups (RUGs)-based proxies for the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM)....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1154+ words) ian munroe | CC BY 2.0 Skilled nursing margins and occupancy stabilized over the last year, but a looming issue for 2026 is the sizeable Medicaid cuts included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). As a result, experts say nursing homes…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1320+ words) The skilled nursing sector experienced a turbulent and transformative 2025, shaped by sweeping deregulation efforts, intensifying financial and policy pressures as well as volatile reimbursement dynamics. Meanwhile, rising M&A activity and renewed scrutiny of private equity ownership dominated markets and…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (575+ words) The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is once again beating the drum for reducing Medicare payment rates for skilled nursing facilities. Specifically, the commission's draft recommendation calls for a 4% cut to the Medicare base payment rate to SNFs for fiscal…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (246+ words) Medicare overpaid for optometry services to nursing homes, the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) audit report released Thursday found. In OIG's sample, Medicare paid 200 optometrists $4.7 million between 2021 and 2023 for high-level evaluation and management services not usually billed by optometrists for…...