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- Hospital-at-Home Waiver Ended – What Next?
- Shutdown is Over: The Pieces
- Congress, Medicaid Subsidies – What’s Next
- CPI and Healthcare Inflation
- Tough Housing Market = Life Plan Challenges
- CMS Releases Strategy on MAHA
- Republican House Medicaid Reform Package
- VOHRA Wound Care Faces Medicare Fraud Claim
- Podcast on Healthcare Spending and Reform
- Clicks and Coffee Podcast
- Medicaid Spending Reductions, Part III
- Medicaid Spending Reductions, Part II
- Medicaid Spending Reductions: What to Know
- Medicare Hospice and Home Health Fraud, Part 3
- Medicare Hospice and Home Health Fraud, Part 2
- Medicare Hospice and Home Health Fraud, Part 1
- House GOP Releases Budget Blueprint for Savings
- Life Plan/IL Challenges Ahead?
- Rural Healthcare Under Intense Pressure
- Medicaid Spending in the DOGE Radar
- Doc Payment Fix Bill in the Works?
- DOJ Recovers $2.9 Billion in Fraud in 2024
- Fixing Healthcare Spending in the U.S.
- InnovAge Fraud Litigation Expands
- A Population Peek at Housing Demand
- Senior Living Capital Outlook 2025
- Life Expectancy Falls Behind the World
- Federal Assisted Living Regulatory Initiative
- CMS Issues Updates on Immediate Jeopardy
- Being a More Effective Executive: A Checklist
- Friday Feature: Four Topics to Watch
- Twofer Tuesday: Marketing Insights for 2025
- CMS Reinforces Hospice Regulatory, Fraud Focus
- CCRCs (Life Plan): Econ Data in Marketing?
- Oxford Valley Health v. Nursa Update
- CMS Releases Home Health Final Rule 2025
- SNF Survey and Certification Update
- Litigation Breaks on CMS Staffing Mandate
- Touching Base with 2024’s Outlook
- Illinois Assisted Living and COVID Immunity
- Marketing: Value Propositions and Strategy
- Senior Housing Marketing and Outlook
- Merger/Affiliation Strategy Update – Checklist
- Medicare’s Prescription Drug Price Two-Step
- Federal Judge Key Ruling on False Claims Act
- Senior Living Liability Claims Analysis Report
- Fitch: CCRCs and SNFs Still Staffing Challenged
- Fed Rate Cut: Will it Help Providers?
- Doc Payment Fix in the Works?
- Innovation: Think Inside the Box
- The Debate: Policy that Should be Discussed
- Nursing Assistants = Supply Shortage
- Check: Medicare Advantage Coverage Issues
- Nursing Home Closures Creating Access Issues
- Healthcare Fraud is Rampant and so are Costs
- Exploring Age-Friendly Healthcare Programs
- Eighteen CCRCs Impacted by Fitch Ratings Update
- Fitch Non-Profit CCRC Ratings Update
- TEAM Model and Post-Acute Care
- Senior Living Marketing Update
- Senior Living Bankruptcy Trend Remains Alarming
- Donald Trump “Likely” Health Policy
- Phantom Diseases and Medicare Advantage Fraud
- Hospice 2025 Final Rule, 2.9% Increase
- Final 2025 SNF Rule – Rate Increase, More Fines
- Private Equity and Hospital Assets
- Private Equity Update – Regulation
- Geriatrician Shortage = Cause for Concern
- Compliance: Develop a Culture of Disclosure
- Kamala Harris “Likely” Health Policy
- Management Can Prevent Turnover
- Senior Housing and Care M&A at Record Level
- Senior Living Occupancy Up: Challenges Remain
- OHSA Rules Could Impact Healthcare/Senior Living
- Medicare Fraud: $2.75 Billion Recovered
- SCOTUS Chevron Decision a Win for Healthcare
- Altarum Report: Healthcare Spending Accelerates Between May 23 and May 24
- Wednesday Feature: Fitch Reinforces Deteriorating Outlook for CCRCs
- The Economy and CCRC Performance – Update
- Hospice Fraud and Abuse Front and Center
- The Poem that Once was Us – Reblog
- The Ensign Group Inc. Case Study: Nursing Home Chains Analysis
- DOJ Gets Aggressive in Pursuit of Telehealth Fraud
- Arbitration Agreements: AZ Atty. General Seeks to End Secrecy Provisions
- Private Equity Investment in Nursing Home Sector Generates Regulatory Scrutiny
- Defend Your Long-Term Care Facility Against Litigation with Expert Data Analysis
- Senior Living Rate Increases are Slowing: Revenue Diversification Offers Opportunities
- Preventing Falls in Seniors: Key Interventions Revealed by JAMA Study
- Sr. Living Capital Access Still Challenged
- Maryland SNF Class Action Suit: Nursing Home Residents Seek Mandatory Inspections
- Welcome to the Updated Reg’s Blog!
- Quick Update
- Friday Feature: Housekeeping
- FTC Bans Employment Non-Compete Provisions – Healthcare Implications Aplenty
- Wednesday Feature: Massachusetts Nursing Home Residents Set to Transition to Community Living with $1 Billion Settlement
- CMS Final SNF Staffing Rule Released
- Regulation Monday: SNF Staffing Mandate and Medicaid Access Rule
- Friday Feature: Back to the Future and Care Rounds
- Challenges Persist in Staffing for U.S. Life Plan Communities and Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Wednesday Feature: Budget Stuff…Cubed
- MedPAC Report to Congress: A Wrap with Monday?
- Monday = Budget Day
- Friday Feature: An End to Arbitration Clauses?
- The Dark Side of the Economy
- Recent HIPAA Right of Access Settlements Highlight Ongoing Enforcement Efforts
- Medicare, DOJ, Fraud and the Eclipse?
- Reducing MDRO Prevalence in Healthcare Facilities: The Impact of Chlorhexidine Bathing and Nasal Decolonization on Hospitalizations
- Wednesday Feature: Hospice Proposed Rule for 2025
- Marketing to Fit the Times
- CMS Releases 2025 PPS Proposed Rule for SNFs
- Skilled Nursing Operator Takes Legal Action Against Staffing Platform for Alleged Overbilling
- Wednesday Feature: How Old Am I?
- The Politics of Population and Immigration
- Sign of the Times: Petersen Health Care Files for Bankruptcy
- Unprecedented Spike in Cancer Deaths: New Study Reveals Alarming Trend – Friday Feature
- Tip-Toeing Through the (Healthcare)Econ Tulips
- Wednesday Feature: Econ Rollercoaster
- Navigating Uncertainty: The Top Concern for CEOs in 2024
- 15 Days to Slow the Spread: Remembered
- Analyzing the 2023 Cost of Care Survey: Trends in Long-Term Care Rate Increases
- Econ Tuesday: Houston, We Have a Problem
- Legislation Grab Bag
- Friday Feature: You Will be Hated
- Penn and Teller and the Disappearing SNF
- Wednesday Feature: A Peek into the Future
- Record-breaking $2.7 Billion Paid by Healthcare Providers in False Claims Act Cases
- Friday Feature: Legal Battle Unfolds Over Nursing Home Negligence Amid Pandemic Era
- The Hidden Factor Impacting Consumer Sentiment: Exploring Borrowing Costs
- Wednesday Feature: Lending Trends Still Reflecting a Tight Capital Environment
- Fast-Track Nursing Programs: Meeting America’s Growing Need for Nurses?
- Unlocking the Potential: Overcoming Challenges for LTPAC Providers in ACO Participation
- Wednesday Feature: Navigating the Evolving Landscape – Enhancing Ethics and Compliance Programs for Risk Mitigation
- The Financial Struggle of Rural Hospitals: A Growing Concern for Healthcare Access
- Why Managers Need to Shift Focus from Putting Out Fires to Empowering Their Teams
- My Notebook: Econ Tuesday Recap
- Wednesday Feature: Ash Wednesday and the Start of Lent
- Econ Tuesday: CPI Report Out, Heat Still On
- Unveiling the Allegations: Lawsuit Claims Advocate Aurora Health’s Monopoly on Health System is Hiking Prices in Wisconsin
- Friday Feature: Litigation, Arbitration, and COVID
- Wednesday Feature: Healthcare Job Growth and the Economic Disconnect
- Occupancy? The Hidden Senior Living Market
- Rising Tide of Audits: Brace Yourself for Increased Scrutiny on Skilled Nursing Providers in 2024
- Friday Feature: Healthcare Economics Update
- 2024 Senior Living Outlook Report
- Wednesday Feature -The Soaring Price of Care: How Retirement Costs are Reaching New Heights
- Unraveling the Puzzle: Tackling Fragmented Healthcare for Better Patient Outcomes
- Record Bankruptcies in Health Care in 2023
- Iowa Lawsuit = More Bad News for Assisted Living
- Wednesday Feature: Neglected, Uninspected – Senate Aging Committee Report on SNF Surveys
- OIG: CMS Should Take Action Against States with Poor SNF Survey Performance
- The Cost of Assisted Living: A Report from Seniorly
- Conference Board Report/C-Suite Outook for 2024: Concerns Ahead
- Wednesday Feature: Framework for Improved Staffing Levels
- Rural Hospital Program: Extra Cash for Emergency and Outpatient Services Stuck in Neutral
- Senior Living Occupancy Trends: Positive Fourth Quarter Data | National Investment Center
- Friday Feature: Regulatory Shake-Up – 20 States Revamp Assisted Living Laws in 2022 – 2023
- Fitch 2024 Oulook: Life Plan (CCRC) Communities, Non-Profit Hospitals – Deteriorating
- Wednesday Feature: Snow Day, Hump Day
- Final Independent Contractor Rule: Implications for Health Care
- SNF Closure Risks Increasing
- Friday Feature: The Economic Impact in Aging Countries
- COVID Assisted Living Claim in Virginia – Potentially Precedential
- Wednesday Feature: Dying Broke
- JAMA Study: Private Equity Ownership and Hospital Outcomes
- Wednesday Feature: Outlook for 2024
- The Impact of Baby Boomers on Senior Living/Senior Healthcare
- Friday Feature: Merry Christmas
- Genesis and COVID Litigation – Interesting Update
- Wednesday Feature: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Washington Post and Assisted Living (not so good) News
- Friday Feature: Hopeful
- Humana, United Health: Class Action Suits over AI use in Coverage Determination
- Wednesday Feature: SNF Ownership Transparency
- MedPAC Recommendations: Home Health, Hospice, Inpatient Rehab Facilities
- MedPAC Recommends 3% Rate Cut for SNFs – 2025
- Friday Feature: Affordability of Senior Living and Services
- Medicaid: HCBS and Eligibility Updates
- Wednesday Feature: Recession Ahead?
- Twofer Tuesday: Life Plan/CCRCs, Fitch Outlook (2024) and Rate Concession Report
- Senior Living/CCRC Risk Reduction and the Fair Housing Act
- Friday Feature: Senior Living Litigation Watch: Risks at CCRCs/Independent Living
- Wednesday Feature: CEO Burnout is Real
- Value-Based Care: What it is and How it Can Work for Post-Acute Providers
- OIG Issues Report on SNF Emergency Preparedness
- Wednesday Feature: Happy Thanksgiving!
- Hospice Special Focus, IDR, and Quality Reporting Program – 2024
- Compliance Update: Fraud and Abuse
- Friday Feature: Senior Living Credit/Borrowing Still, Very Soft
- Non-Profit Ownership/Sponsorship Changes Moving at Record Pace
- Wednesday Feature: CPI, Economy, 40 Days to Christmas
- Hospice Payment Basics/MedPAC
- Home Health 2024 Final Rule Released
- Friday Feature: Veterans Day
- CMS Offers Fix to Medicare Advantage Denials
- National Signing Day!
- Wednesday Feature: A Bit of Economic Nostalgia
- 3rd Quarter Senior Housing Update
- Rising Health Care Costs – A Serious Issue, Election Implications?
- Friday Feature: Senior Living Investment Outlook
- SNF Staffing, Mandates, and More
- Wednesday Feature: The Power of Positive Thinking
- MedPAC and Medicare Advantage
- Mish-Mash Monday
- Friday Feature: Important COVID Criminal Case Dismissed
- Boomers and Senior Living: What to Expect
- Wednesday Feature: Another, Different Pandemic
- Sr. Living M&A Update – Third Quarter
- Real Estate Sales Report – News Worsens for CCRCs/Life Plan Communities
- Friday Feature: A Day Off
- Twofer Thursday: Staffing Litigation and a Bit More on Medicare Advantage Plans
- Wednesday Feature: The Meaning of Life
- Medicare Advantage – Status Update
- Sr. Living, Litigation and COVID Implications
- Friday Feature: Sr. Living, Health Care, and COVID Litigation
- COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness: Redux
- Wednesday Feature: Mental Health
- Value-Based Care: Why it Matters, or Should, for Post-Acute Providers
- How Much is Enough? Deficits, Debt, and a Look Into the Future
- Friday Feature: Sr. Living Occupancy Update + (plus)
- SNF Industry Update
- Wednesday Feature: Insanity
- Twofer Tuesday: Jimmo and Staffing Mandates
- AZ Pandemic Related Case – Watchlist Important
- Friday (and Weekend) Feature: A Bit Tardy
- Wednesday Feature: Autumn
- Quality and Quantity of Life for Seniors, in Senior Housing
- Leadership and 1776
- Friday Feature: Where Inflation Came from and Why
- Fitch, Life Plan (CCRCs) and the Economy: Could Get Uglier
- Wednesday Feature: A Great Leadership Lesson
- Senior Housing Occupancy Update
- Political Issue: Medicare Solvency
- Wednesday Feature: It’s the Economy, Stupid
- Outlook for Single Site CCRCs/Life Plan Communities
- Memory Care: 9/11
- Friday Feature: Quality and the Revenue Connection (2019 version)
- Five Quality and Compliance Tips
- Wednesday Feature: Fall is Coming!
- SNF Performance Update – Occupancy, etc.
- CMS Releases Rule on SNF Staffing Mandate
- Friday Feature: Buffet on Management and Boards of Directors
- SNFs (and others), a (not good) Staffing Litigation Trend to Watch
- Wednesday Feature: CMS SNF Staffing Mandate Stalled? The Abt Report on Feasibility…
- SNF Final Rule 2024 – Update
- Politics and Health Policy
- Friday Feature: CMS Updates RAI Manual for SNFs
- SNF Claims Audits so Far – Messy
- Wednesday Feature: CMS Targeting 400 Hospices for Administrative Action
- High Acuity Assisted Living and Home Health Becoming a Trend?
- Trouble for Rural Hospitals
- Friday Feature: SNFs and Hospices
- The Status of RNs in Health Care
- News and Upcoming Quality Program
- Cuts and Layoffs are Happening
- Friday Feature: The Benefit of R&R
- Tapas Thursday: Small Health Policy News Bites
- Wednesday Feature: Best Medicine
- Are Independent Primary Care Docs a Thing of the Past?
- Hospice 2024 Final Rule and Home Health Update: Preserving Access Legislation
- Friday Feature: COVID and Liability Insurance Coverage
- Wednesday Feature: Lonely at the Top
- SNFs Get a Bit of Good News: CMS Final Rule for FY 2024
- Senators Seek Survey Accountability for SNFs
- Friday Feature: GDP Report
- Not Just Senior Living…Hospitals Too
- Fed Rate Action and the Impact on Seniors Housing
- Wednesday Feature: Days Before Christmas
- Senior Living Occupancy Trends – A Bit More Data
- Senior Living and Care M&A: Two Worlds
- Friday Feature: Home Health Proposed Rule Implications
- Real Estate Sales Report Out – Dismal News for Seniors and Senior Housing
- Wednesday Feature: Nostalgia
- Staffing Level Mandate – Update
- Jobs Data and Staffing Status Update
- Friday Feature: The Good Acquisition
- Fitch, Life Plan Communities, Mid-Year Update
- Wednesday Feature: The Gift of Giving
- Blast from the Past: Healthcare Leadership…
- Friday Feature: Affordability is an Issue
- Wednesday Feature: Relentless Incrementalism
- Freedom is not Free
- Friday Feature: What Baby Boomers Want
- Health Care Sector Econ Data Points
- Wednesday Feature: Independence Day
- Mid-Year Update: The Economy and Capital Markets
- Friday Feature: 2 Court Cases
- Wednesday Feature: First Day of Summer!
- Hospice Alert: Regulatory Changes Likely, Soon
- Friday Feature: MedPAC, Single Payment, and the IMPACT Act
- Blast from the Past – Duties of Boards: An OIG Perspective
- Wednesday Feature: Father’s Day and Sunday Dinner
- OIG Initiatives for SNFs
- Owner’s Rep – What It Is, When and How to Use One
- Friday Feature: Occam’s Razor and Management
- Supreme Court Decides: Nursing Home Residents/Families Can Sue Public Facilities
- Wednesday Feature: The Greatest Generation
- Merge/Affiliation Strategy Update – Checklist
- SNFs Get Ready – Claims Audits Start Soon!
- Wednesday Feature: Summer’s Here!
- Friday Feature: SNFs Still Make Sense
- Wednesday Feature: Memorial Day
- Home Health and Assisted Living: Compliance and Litigation Tips to Note
- Senior Housing and the Real Estate Market – Status
- Friday Feature: 5 Important Leadership Principles
- Wednesday Feature: Here’s Comes Summer!
- Insight: CEO Turnover
- Senior Housing/Senior Living Debt Review
- Friday Feature: Three Trends to Watch
- Senior Housing/Post-Acute Insurance Update
- Wednesday Feature: Happy Mother’s Day
- Pastoral Care and Risk Management
- Major Upgrade Needed: Care Coordination
- Friday Feature: REIT Update
- Senior Housing Marketing: Bumpy Road Ahead
- Wednesday Feature: Lessons from a Cat
- May 11 and PHE: Provider Alert
- Medicare Advantage/Part D Final Rule
- Friday Feature: The Economic Realities
- Top 5 Staff Retention Tips for a Tough Labor Market
- SNFs: 3 Overnight Stay Requirement Returning
- Wednesday Feature: The Last Quarter of Life
- SNFs and HHAs: A Common, Concerning Trend
- In-Depth: CCRCs First Quarter 2023
- Friday Feature: The Supreme Court and Medicaid Beneficiary Rights to Sue
- Top 5 Tips for Recruiting in a Tough Labor Market
- Wednesday Feature: The Shot Heard Round the World
- Executive Order – Staffing and Medicare Implications Update
- Staffing and Turnover: Medicare Payment Implications?
- Medicare Claims, Audits, Denials and AI
- Friday Feature: Nursing and LTC
- Econ Update
- SNFs: Compliance, Medicare Billing and RACs
- 15 minutes
- Merge/Affiliation in the Cards?
- Senior Housing Update – Q1
- SNF Proposed Rule – 2024
- Hospice Proposed Rule – 2024
- Penny Wise, Margin Foolish
- Litigation Risk and Assisted Living Facilities
- Litigation and Staffing: What to Know, What to Control
- Staffing, Compliance, and Litigation Risk
- Back in the Saddle
- PDPM: First Blush Analysis
- SNFs: Five Issues and Trends to Watch…NOW!
- The Connection Between Quality and Revenue
- SNF Proposed Rule for 2020
- Governance and PDPM: What Boards Need to Know
- Follow-Up: Real Impacts of Poor Quality and Lax Compliance
- The Real Impacts of Poor Quality, Inadequate Compliance and Weak Risk Management
- Home Health Final Rule: Rate Increases plus PDGM
- Site Neutral Payment Update
- Don’t Miss Event: Webinar on Reducing Rehospitalizations
- SNF QRP and What the Data Means
- Post-Acute, Site Neutral Payment Upcoming?
- SNF Final Rule 2019: Key Points and Provisions
- SNF PPS Final Rule 2019
- CMS Final SNF PPS Rule for 2019: Increases plus PDPM
- Five Post Acute Axioms (Truisms)
- Stuck in Neutral: Bundled Payments and Post-Acute Providers
- Interoperability and Post-Acute Implications
- SNFs and PBJ Article
- CMS Proposes Reintroduction of Pre-Payment Review for Home Health (with a twist)
- Home Health and Hospice: Strategic Movement in an Evolving Market
- CMS Proposes New SNF Payment Model
- Is a Paradigm Shift Starting in Senior Living?
- SNFs and the Medicaid Conundrum
- SNF Outlook: 2018/2019
- New Compliance/Survey Resource for SNFs
- Medicaid Reform: Hope for Taming the Gorilla?
- The SNF 800 lb. Gorilla – Medicaid
- Bundled Payment Update
- Bundled Payment Hiatus….or, Demise?
- SNFs and Stranded Assets
- SNF Fortunes, HCR/Manor Care and Salient Lessons in Health Care
- SNF Outlook, REITs, Kindred and Where to From Here
- Hospice, Hospital Readmissions and Penalty Implications
- Health Systems, Hospitals and Post-Acute Providers: Making Integration Work
- Seniors Housing/CCRC Outlook plus Lessons from Brookdale
- IMPACT Act, VBP, Care Coordination and the SNF Landscape
- SNF M&A: The Provider Number Trap
- Post Acute Resolutions for 2017
- Webinar – Post-Election Healthcare Policy: What to Expect
- The Election is Over….Now What?
- New SNF Conditions of Participation: Implementation Timeframes
- CMS Releases Final Rule on SNF Conditions of Participation
- Post-Acute Providers and Narrow Networks: Join, Form or Wait
- CMS Proposes Additional Bundled Payments: The Post-Acute Implications
- The Supreme Court, False Claims Act, and Implications for Providers
- SNFs: Strategies to Mitigate Readmission and Rehospitalization Risk
- Health Care Leadership: Why its Hard, Why Many Fail and What it Takes to Succeed
- Getting CCRC Feasibility Studies Correct … and Other Studies as Well
- Bundled Payment Primer: SNFs
- RehabCare, Therapy Fraud and Lessons Not Quite Learned
- Bundled Payments: Final Hip and Knee Rule
- Modern Health Care Risk Management
- Upcoming Webinar: CMS Proposed Reform Rule for SNFs
- CMS Releases Proposed New SNF Rule
- Core Administrative Competency: SNF
- SNFs: A New Era in Post-Acute Care Begins
- Medicare, Billing Audits and Self-Disclosure
- SNFs, Therapy Contracts and Fraud: Redux
- SNFs, Therapy Contracts and Fraud: Another Warning and Example
- Hospice: Risk/Reward for Institutional Growth
- Post-Acute Compliance 2015: OIG Targets
- The Demographic Realities of Seniors Housing and Healthcare
- Therapy, Medicare Fraud, Extendicare: Lessons for SNFs
- SNFs: Five Competitive Strategies Worthy of Investment
- SNFs, Therapy Companies, and Billing Risk
- CCRC Update 2014
- CMS Announces Final Rule for Hospice Payments for 2015
- CMS Issues Proposed Home Health Rule for 2015
- SNFs: Five Compliance Issues to Pay Attention To
- Analysis: Kindred Pursuit of Gentiva
- Hospice and the Medicare Choices Program: A Follow-Up
- Hospice and the Medicare Care Choices Model: A Progressive Approach?
- Boards of Directors: Success, Mediocrity and Sometimes, Failure
- Medicaid Case-Mix States: A Reader Question
- SNF Caution: Medicare and End of Life Billing
- Doc Patch in the Works
- Boards of Directors: Outside Looking In
- House Passes Doc-Fix Bill Destined for Nowhere
- Amedisys Today: A Cautionary Tale
- CCRC/Seniors Housing Outlook 2014
- Decline in Hospice Demand?
- Home Health Focus: Gentiva/Harden and More
- The ACA/Obamacare: Predictability and Practicality
- CMS Releases Home Health Final PPS Rules for 2014
- Medicare Advantage Plans and HIPPS (SNF PPS) Codes
- Obamacare/ACA: Implications for Consumers
- Debt Ceilings, Government Shutdowns and Health Policy
- The ACA, Funding Resolutions and the Shut Down
- Observation Stay Relief via Congress?
- QAPI: What’s it all About?
- Obamacare/ACA: Implications for Providers
- Obamacare/ACA: Where it is at, why and where next
- Assisted Living, PBS and the Lessons Learned
- Emeritus/PBS and a Window on Assisted Living
- Improving Real Estate Economy Leading to Improving Seniors Housing Trends?
- Reforming the Medicare Hospice Benefit
- United States v. Vitas: The Impact and What Next
- Hospice Tumult: The Beggining of the End?
- Home Health Outlook: 2013
- Hospice Outlook: 2013
- SNF Outlook: 2013
- Medicare Outpatient Therapy Rates: Part B
- 2013 Medicare, Fiscal Cliff, Policy Outlook and More
- Healthcare Polar Express
- Healthcare and the Fiscal Cliff
- False Claims Act: Providers Beware
- Policy News: A Black Friday Edition
- Five Things Every Healthcare Executive Should Focus On: Updated, Revised
- Health Policy News: Too Good to be Quieted by Election Coverage
- Fables, Tales and Job Reports
- One Week
- Elections Have Consequences
- First Glimpse at ACO Results
- Presidential Debates and the Core of Health Policy
- Catching Up, Part II: Home Health and Hospice
- Catching Up Part I: Politics, Observation Stays, and Medicaid
- What’s Trending: Back on Track….For Now
- What’s Trending: Catching Up
- What’sTrending: A Tad Late
- What’s Trending: Last Friday in July
- CBO Releases Updated ACA Score
- CBO Score on Post-Court ACA Implications Due Today
- What’s Trending: A Hot Friday Perspective
- An Omission from Friday
- What’s Trending: A Friday the 13th in July Perspective
- Supreme Court Upholds the PPACA
- What’s Trending: A New Feature
- Senate Back and Forth on Psychoactive Medication Regs
- SNFs: Its All About Quality Now
- CCRC Marketing Reality Check-Up
- CMS Reverses Course on Independent Consulting Pharmacists
- Know Your Market, Know Your Value Proposition
- Financial Tests Before Additions, Renovations or New Construction
- Post-Acute Issues Worth Watching
- Medicare SNF Rate Outlook
- Medicare Fraud and Why; Part II
- Medicare, Fraud and Why: Perspectives on the Post-Acute Industry
- Medicare Doc Fix Redux
- Hospice Census: Where’s It At?
- Current Policy Trends to Watch
- Post-Payment Reductions: Build a Revenue Model for Success
- SNFs: What to do Now for October 1
- Post-Acute Outlook Post Debt Ceiling, Post Medicare Rate Adjustments, Etc.
- CMS Announces Medicare SNF Cuts: The Implication
- OIG on Hospice: Restructure Hospice Payments for SNF Residents
- Medicare SNF Cuts: Fact, Fiction, Probability
- Accountable Care Organizations: A Post-Acute Perspective
- CMS, Proposed ACO Regulations and a Post-Acute Analysis
- When and Why Projects Go Bad: Traps and Pitfalls to Avoid
- MedPac Report to Congress: 2012 Recommendations
- The Unraveling of the PPACA
- RUGs IV Here to Stay!
- MDS 3.0, RUGs IV, RUGs III, Hybrid: A 45 Day Review
- Economic Value Analysis, Value Propositions and Marketing
- Presentation on Strategic Pricing for Senior Housing
- Hospices Looking for Census Improvements: Add Some Innovations
- Hospice Contracts in SNFs: Survey Reminders for the SNF
- RUGs III to RUGs IV: The Core of “Need to Know”
- Due Diligence and Acquisitions: A Review of Common Pitfalls
- House Passes Jobs Bill Containing Enhanced FMAP
- Enhanced FMAP Funding Moving Through the Senate
- Compliance, the Courts and a Risk Reminder
- Medicaid Expansion and the PPACA
- As the Home Health and Hospice World Turns: Part II
- As the Home Health and Hospice World Turns: Part I
- Doc Fix Survives, Medicaid Ehanced Match Doesn’t
- Senate Doubles Back on “Doc Fix” Legislation
- Senate Sets Roadblock on Jobs Bill: Impact is Felt for Doc Fix and Medicaid Funding
- RUGS-IV Still In Limbo
- American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Update
- Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes Act of 2010: S 3407
- American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act – HR 4213
- Senior Living/Housing M&A and Fitch
- Five Things Every Administrator Should Focus On
- Research Project: How much did your organization spend on H1N1 preparedness?
- GAO Releases Report on Poor Perfoming Nursing Homes
- Health Reform Implications for Institutional Providers
- CMS Proposed Policy and Rate Changes for LTAcHs
- Stark, Health Care Reform and Updated Compliance Requirements
- Part B Therapy Cuts Delayed to June 1
- Part B Therapy Rate Reductions Return
- Health Care Reform and Assisted Living
- Health Care Reform Implications: Home Health Care
- Health Care Reform Implications: SNFs
- Strategies for Accomplishing New Development or Major Capital Projects
- Health Care Reform Implications: Medical Device and DME
- The Housing Market and CCRC Prospects: What Each Means to the Other
- Health Care Reform Updates and Analysis
- Hospice Census Issues: A Possible Trend with a Twist?
- Medpac Report to Congress: 2011
- Hospital Re-Admissions: Update to an Earlier Post
- Hospital Observation Stays Impacting Medicare SNF Admissions
- Property Tax Update for Wisconsin Senior Housing
- New HIPAA Provision Now in Effect
- Hospice Contract Reminders for SNFs
- CCRC Update
- Non-Profit Health Care Outlook for 2010
- Assisted Living Update
- Sharpen the Sales and Marketing Efforts in 2010
- CMS Releases Annual Report on Health Spending
- Better Productivity, Better Retention: Labor Strategy for 2010
- Health Care Reform: The Senate, the President and the Truth
- CCRCs: Ready, Set, Market!
- Health Care Reform: Back to the Senate and All that Jazz
- House Approves Doc Payment Fix
- Medicaid and Health Care Reform
- Health Care Reform: Getting to the Details
- Health Care Reform in the House: A Post Mortem
- Affordable Health Care for America Act: Implications for SNFs
- CMS Releases Hospice Stats
- Healthcare Reform: Now the House Version
- Healthcare Reform Update: Inside Baseball Time
- CCRCs and Problems: Much Ado About Likely, Very Little
- Getting Risks Under Control: Improving Organizational Prosperity
- Credit Markets to Remain Tight: FDIC Issues Caution
- OIG Reports Published on Hospice
- Skilled Nursing Facilities, Healthcare Reform and Gloomy Propsects
- Baucus Bill Survives Committee: What Next
- Senate Reform Bill Budget Neutral?
- Healthcare Economic Outlook
- Senate Health Reform Bill Loses Public Option
- GAO on CRRCs and Boards of Directors
- Reform: The Senate Version
- Holding onto Your D.O.N.
- Deficits and Health Care: Economics Redux
- Translating “Washington” Speak
- SNF Sales: Is the Market Back?
- Assisted Living/Senior Housing Update
- Will Reform Happen?
- Home Health Update
- SNF Update
- Hospice Update
- Duties of Boards: An OIG Perspective
- Why Quality Matters
- Diversification: Staying on Top in a Changing Industry
- Wisconsin’s Newest Triple Tax
- Ten SNF Industry Trends to Watch
- Senior Living vs. Senior Lifestyle: Adjusting the Development Curve
- Walking Away from the Ledge: A Different Perspective on Healthcare Reform
- The Federal Healthcare Abyss
- Creating the Right Niche’
- Medicaid Shell Game – Part Two
- Continued Medicaid Shell Game
- Hospice MedPAC Wrap Up