After much anticipation, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the proposed rule for Stage 2 meaningful use under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (ARRA-HITECH) Act on the website of the Office of the Federal Registrar on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 23.
Omnicare, Inc., announced this week that it will not renew its offer to acquire all common stock of PharMerica Corporation, which expired on February 17, 2012.
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit in late January against Omnicare to block the hostile takeover, alleging that the combination of the two largest U.S. LTC pharmacies would have harmed competition and enabled Omnicare to raise the price of drugs for Medicare Part D consumers.
With a new website come new opportunities. Now that we’ve settled in with the functionality of our revamped site, it’s worth noting some changes to Long-Term Living’s publishing schedules—changes that you may already be enjoying (without knowing it).
A Stillwater, Minn. nursing home resident was subdued by police Wednesday with a Taser after he reportedly stabbed a female employee in the chest with a pen and refused to put it down, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
The 79-year-old man, who also has dementia, had been living at Golden LivingCenter-Linden for two days before “making homicidal comments to staff" and “shouting that he wanted to kill everybody," Chief of Police John Gannaway said.
The American Health Care Association (AHCA) announced Wednesday a multi-year initiative to meet new quality goals, which target hospital readmission rates and staff retention in skilled nursing facilities.
You may not realize this but as an administrator or executive director of a skilled nursing facility, assisted living community, CCRC, home care agency or hospice, you manage one of the larger business in your community. You are the “CEO” of your business and as such have unique marketing opportunities that come with that position.
The family of a man who was allegedly the victim of a homicide last week at a Chicago-area nursing home is planning to file suit, local news agencies reported.
Anibal Calderon, 80, who suffered from dementia, died of head injuries on February 14 days after an alleged fight with another resident at Oak Park Healthcare Center, authorities said.
With 16 years living in nursing homes, I have seen many residents and staff become ill. I feel the best defense is to stay out of everyone’s coughing range. Sometimes, more drastic measures must be taken: At a previous facility where I lived, almost every winter residents had to eat in their rooms for one or two weeks until an illness declined in the building.
The number of hospitals using health information technology (HIT) has more than doubled in the last two years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday.
Nearly 2,000 hospitals and more than 41,000 doctors have received $3.1 billion in incentive payments for ensuring "meaningful use" of HIT, particularly certified electronic health records (EHR), according to the HHS announcement.
This is going to appear strange, but I’ll come out with it anyways: I find policy stories legitimately interesting. And I’m not just saying that because it’s my job to pay attention.
On January 4th, I quietly celebrated the 30th anniversary of my entrance into the field of long-term care management. As improbable as it seems to me, back in 1982, I entered into a 221-bed skilled nursing facility as an administrator-in-training and began a journey that would become my professional passion.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule Tuesday suggesting providers and suppliers must report and return self-identified overpayments either within 60 days of the incorrect payment being identified, or on the date when a corresponding cost report is due—whichever is later.
