Senior Care Providers Partner with CMS to Improve Nursing Home Dementia Care

Senior care providers are lining up to partner with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its newly-announced initiative to improve dementia care in nursing homes. LeadingAge, a trade group representing nonprofit senior care organizations, for-profit nursing home trade group the American Health Care Association (AHCA), and others involved in the nursing home […]

Consumer Group Accuses SNF Industry of “Lousy” Care Despite “Staggering” Earnings

A consumer group is pointing an accusatory finger at the nursing home industry for reporting “staggering” first quarter earnings, while more than a third are providing “lousy” care. In their first quarter earnings reports, many publicly-traded companies operating skilled nursing facilities spoke of “record revenues” and “operating profits that exceeded expectations,” points out Brian Lee, […]

Consumer Group Bashes SNF Industry for Inferior Care Despite “Astonishing” Profits

Nursing homes remained “highly profitable” despite Medicare reimbursement cuts, but they’re still providing inferior care, says citizen advocacy organization Families for Better Care—a claim that the American Health Care Association (AHCA) was quick to counter. Despite “astonishing” recent nursing home earnings reports for publicly traded nursing homes, resident care remains “mediocre at best” with too […]

Nursing Home Trade Group Unveils Quality Initiative to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) unveiled on Wednesday a multi-year initiative to meet new quality goals, which include reducing rehospitalization rates and improving staff retention. The Quality Initiative has four goals designed to improve care in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. “We’re looking at the future […]

AHCA: Reduce Hospital Readmissions, Not Medicare Funding, for SNFs

The nursing home industry is working to prevent further Medicare reimbursement reductions, this time in the form of cuts to bad debt payments, by proposing an alternative: a plan to reduce hospital readmissions from skilled nursing facilities. On Wednesday, Feb. 1, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) will pitch its plan to a House-Senate conference […]

Update: Alliance, AHCA Battle House Proposal to Reduce Medicare “Bad Debt” Payments

On Tuesday night, Dec. 13, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that included reducing Medicare bad debt payments, a proposal decried by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care as it will “unfairly impact” skilled nursing facilities, and further contribute to sector instability. The provision, Section 2224 of […]