Electronic health record providers are starting work that could transform how nursing homes grapple with prior authorization requests and length of stay determinations.

Congress’ Medicare advisory committee has made it clear that much work still needs to be done to bring alignment to post-acute care regulatory and payment matters. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...

A pending class-action lawsuit in Ohio demonstrates the increased vulnerability of nursing homes targeted by hackers seeking valuable patient and employee data.

Ad hoc infection prevention grou to step into advisory vacuum ... Fewer older adults living alone than in ‘90s, but they’re less likely to live in a nursing home … Senate bill would incentive states t ...

Operators have been anxiously awaiting the news that finally arrived last week. Now at last, many can finally exhale.

The Department of Health and Human Services today repealed key provisions of the minimum staffing standards for long-term ...

Medicare overpaid just 15 optometrists serving nursing home residents an estimated $3 million over three years for low-level ...

Under two proposed alternatives to the Five-Star Quality Rating System methodology, only 4% to 5% of nursing homes would earn ...

A group of skilled nursing providers is asking the president to step in and quickly lift lengthy isolation periods for ...

People with dementia who were vaccinated against herpes zoster, or shingles, experienced fewer deaths than those who were ...

Medicare Advantage plans’ increasing use of predictive algorithms to assist in “high-stakes” decisions is leading to ...

Maintaining friendships can help reduce loneliness in both older adult caregivers and older adults without children, and the internet can effectively facilitate such relationships, two new studies ...