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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

Many nursing homes lack the resources required to provide residents with the care they need and deserve, which results in low wages, insufficient staffing levels, high workloads and low morale. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble.

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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The trial took place in 2019. .”

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DOJ Recouped $2.2 Billion Under FCA in 2022

Hall Render

DOJ filed claims against multiple nursing homes and their management corporation for providing services that the DOJ alleged were grossly below the standard of care. million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to physicians who attended its programs in connection with its multiple sclerosis drugs between 2009 and 2014.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

area health system chief leaving for post in Florida Supreme Court will not hear D.C. biotech’s patent infringement appeal A D.C. in 256-Slice CT scanner Lifepoint reports $200M+ economic impact in Cen Ky St. health dept. processed 1.5

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Health Provider News – November 11, 2022

Hall Render

Medical groups to Biden: ED boarding at a ‘crisis point’ Nursing home groups request public health emergency extension. Supreme Court Weighs Whether Medicaid Residents Can Sue State-Owned Nursing Homes. US flu hospitalization rate highest its been since 2009 swine flu pandemic, experts say. CONNECTICUT.

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Health Provider News

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after cyberattack CHI St. after cyberattack CHI St. lawmakers agree to make it easier to build new hospitals Hoar Begins Construction on $18.3M lawmakers agree to make it easier to build new hospitals Hoar Begins Construction on $18.3M