The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday released a draft version of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) with four Section R items ...

A growing number of skilled nursing providers are adopting a regional “pod cluster” model  championed by nursing home giants ...

Legislation to streamline and improve outdated prior authorization processes for Medicare Advantage (MA) was reintroduced this week. The Improving ...

The House narrowly passed a sweeping Republican-backed bill Thursday that could significantly alter Medicaid, with cuts of ...

Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) has introduced the Medicare Advantage Reform Act, which among other provisions would require health plans to pay for ...

The UnitedHealth Group (Nasdaq: UNH) allegedly paid bonuses to nursing homes in order to reduce hospital transfers of ...

Easily preventable and overlooked compliance issues in nursing homes often start in the kitchen and resident rooms, but there ...