Thursday, November 12, 2026 - Updated Daily
Thursday, November 12, 2026 - Updated Daily
In our annual Healthcare Leadership Labor Market Report released in July, we presented some rather alarming trends regarding the long-term care and post-acute care industry’s retention of nursing executives. For example, we noted that 71%…
I know this is supposed to be a blog about healthcare issues, primarily that which falls in the post-acute, long-term care and senior housing world but some stuff in the news right now is just…
Not unexpectedly, the politicians are all a “buzz” about healthcare reform right now. The President even did a live radio/television talk-show to “clarify” what healthcare reform is really about; to translate as it were. From…
According to the most recent release of the Dealmakers Forum published by Irving Levin Associates, July witnessed a sizable increase in transaction volume across the long-term care sector. As I noted in my last post…
For the past nine months we’ve watched the cap rates trend up, occupancy trend down and the transaction market remain stagnant. The credit crisis of one year ago definitely chilled the “buyer” side and as…
Recess – when I was a kid it was the best part of school. Recess was a period of task abandonment; a temporary reprieve from the classroom engagement and the pedagogy. Unfortunately for Congress, recess…
As is/was the case with SNFs and Hospices, CMS and Congress have formulated a series of proposed rules and legislation that reflects the ongoing trend under Medicare of reimbursement reductions. On July 30 (followed by…
What looks like the beginning to a rough late-summer/early-fall period, there are now numerous pending and current policy and reimbursement events that are breaking in the SNF industry. From the July 31 CMS announcement regarding…
In March, I wrote about the MedPAC recommendations to change the Medicare Hospice program and payment system. Yesterday, CMS announced the final (2010) payment for Hospice as well as the implementation structure of some key…
This seemed to be a natural successor topic to my last post, “Why Quality Matters”; principally arising out of recent press releases from the OIG. For example, in June the OIG reported that it had…
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