Republicans passed the reconciliation bill which included a 10-year delay on the federal staffing mandate, no change in nursing home provider taxes, and sweeping spending cuts that will indirectly affect skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). This bill cuts $1 trillion in health care and food assistance spending but will increase the national deficit by $3.4 trillion
Trump intends to cut Medicaid by more than $800 billion over the next decade. McKnight’s reported on a recent study conducted by Vincent Mor, PhD, a noted long-term care researcher in Brown’s Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice. He notes that 579 nursing homes are named in a new report as being at “elevated risk”
The Intercept reported on the use of masks by ICE agents and the withholding of the identity of ICE agents and their attorneys in Court. Last month, a judge took an “exceedingly unusual step”. The judge declined to state the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney who was pushing to deport asylum seekers.
The Colorado Sun reported that two attorneys representing MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in a defamation case have each been fined $3,000 for submitting a court brief generated by artificial intelligence that contained nearly 30 inaccurate or fabricated legal citations. U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang in Colorado issued the sanctions against attorneys Christopher Kachouroff and
Skilled Nursing News reported that legislation was recently reintroduced to Congress for the third time last week in hopes of streamlining and improving outdated prior authorization processes for Medicare Advantage (MA). This bipartisan bill, reintroduced by many lawmakers, including Representative Ami Bera (D-CA), continues to draw widespread backing and support from various lawmakers. The Improving
McKnight’s had an article on Medicare’s 5 Star Rating. The level of quality care in nursing homes is in erratic and inconsistent, as more than a quarter of 5-star-rated facilities have slid and fallen to the lowest rating, while more than two-fifths have climbed from the bottom to the top, achieving the highest rating in
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