Friday, September 18, 2026 - Updated Daily
Recent healthcare billing fraud cases show similar conduct moving across bill coding, DME, telemedicine, and product billing. Read the provider-level analysis….by Reginald Hislop, III Earlier this week I wrote about CMS barring eleven medical equipment suppliers from Medicare Advantage...
Interest rates on government bonds worldwide are rising fast. Rising rates and rising bond yields do not stay inside the financial pages. They create ripple effects through mortgage rates, auto loans, and the loans that…
Healthcare reform is not a single bill. It is three separate changes moving through the federal system at once, and only one of them touches a skilled nursing facility’s day-to-day operations directly. Operators who treat…
The in-house versus contract therapy decision is usually framed as an operating question — margin, staffing burden, flexibility. It is actually a liability question, and too many SNF operators make the choice without fully pricing…
Readers, followers (Twitter, etc.) and folks who have attended one or more of my industry conference presentations know that I routinely harp on the “risk/reward” relationship between SNFs and therapy companies (the contract therapy provides)….
Yes another SNF, another therapy contract and more fraud settlements. The only thing that isn’t different is the contractor – RehabCare once again (a coincidence?…not likely). In news released late last week, a Maine SNF…
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