It took a little while for the dust to settle after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed its 2026 Physician Pay Rule. But now that it has, physician advocates are kicking up a storm over an unexpected proposal that would cut Medicare Part B indirect practice expense payments in half — ...
To test or not to test? It’s a question that often plagues healthcare professionals as they try to decide which diagnostic procedures are necessary for the treatment of their patients — and those which are not needed, or may even be harmful. There is no time to waste when it comes to getting better at diag...
The COVID-19 pandemic put into question the organizational skills of LTCF. The containment measures implemented in several Asian countries avoided heavy death tolls in LTCF in contrast to other countries across the globe. The aim of this review is therefore to investigate and illustrate the measures that w...
With the July 2022 Care Compare refresh, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System to include weekend staffing and staff turnover measures.
Previous studies report higher hospitalization rates in for-profit compared with nonprofit long-term care facilities (LTCFs), but have not included staffing data, a major potential confounder. Our objective was to examine the effect of ownership on hospital admission rates, after adjusting for facility sta...