Medicaid

Major changes to resident assessment tools, increasing quality reporting requirements and new state Medicaid payment tools will continue to dog providers well into 2024, a trio of clinical and reimbursement...

Providers pursuing Green House projects and prioritizing steps to enhance care quality such as private rooms have won significant victories on Medicaid reimbursement funding in Ohio.

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Facilities in Ohio are one step closer to receiving higher Medicaid reimbursements for private nursing home rooms after an executive order signed by Gov. Mike DeWine (R).

After 15 years of Medicaid reimbursement cuts, a group of providers says a cost-of-living increase is not enough to address compounding funding issues that threaten the quality of healthcare. 

People who receive short-term treatment at nursing homes that specialize in post-acute care have lower rates of hospital readmission and death, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania...

After providing care in three different centuries, Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center is closing its doors due to regulatory and funding pressures.

It was supposed to work like this. When people need long-term care, they pay privately until they’re impoverished. Then and only then Medicaid helps. To avoid that outcome, people were urged to save...

It’s been a flurry of activity leading up to the implementation of the “new MDS.” For months our industry has been doing what we do best — rising to the occasion.  Countless MDS training sessions,...

Several converging factors could make the next few years especially complicated for state Medicaid systems, with the potential for new cost-setting strategies to affect providers from coast-to-coast.