The American Health Care Association (AHCA) offered solutions on post-acute care reform that could save the Medicare program billions. In a response issued today to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, AHCA outlined its legislative proposal to reduce hospital readmissions from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), guaranteeing $2 billion in savings […]
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The nursing home industry’s two largest trade groups, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, announced on Tuesday an agreement to combine their operations into one organization. The merger is expected to be complete by July 1, and the new entity will retain the AHCA name. Details of […]
In an effort to alleviate the growing—and costly—problem of patient rehospitalizations, skilled nursing and rehabilitation care provider Genesis HealthCare is partnering with Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Bayview campus in a $20 million project that will address this issue specifically. The announcement comes just days before new rehospitalization penalties are set to begin kicking in on October […]
1. AHCA Announces Recipients of 2012 National Quality Award Program The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) recently announced the recipients of the 2012 National Quality Award program. A total of 458 skilled nursing or assisted living facilities from across the country earned a Bronze, Silver or Gold from […]
Healthcare policy groups have a message for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding its efforts to improve care coordination for the nation’s dual eligibles: slow down. At least one person has an even stronger opinion regarding the future of the initiative, reports Politico, as Senator Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.Va.) has called for an […]
A bipartisan congressional bill seeks to change the way Medicare determines whether or not a skilled nursing or rehabilitation stay following a hospitalization qualifies for coverage, but a legislation tracker website only gives it a 1% chance of becoming law. Currently, when Medicare beneficiaries are discharged to a skilled care facility for rehabilitation, Medicare’s coverage […]
With unpredictable Medicare reimbursement rates and constricted Medicaid budgets at a state level, senior care providers are welcoming a less common, but slowly growing, form of payment: long-term care insurance. This product allows policyholders to make claims to their insurance company to pay for their health care costs, whether it’s received at home, in a […]
In the healthcare world, skilled nursing facilities are often a stop for elderly patients transitioning home from the hospital, but an emerging “hospital at home” model could eliminate that stop by keeping some chronically ill patients at home the whole time. Kaiser Health News reports: “Hospital at home” programs fundamentally refashion care for chronically ill […]
Congressional Republicans want to reduce the Medicaid provider tax threshold as a way to pay for keeping student loan interest rates down, but doing so will undermine senior care, a trade group said in a letter to House and Senate GOP leaders. Cutting the provider tax threshold from 6% to 5.5% would cause a “ripple […]
President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget recommendations to Congress included provisions cutting “bad debt” reimbursements to nursing homes in an effort to save Medicare dollars, but it might end up backfiring and costing the system more. Let’s say Mrs. Smith, who is dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, goes to the hospital after breaking her […]
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