Monday, October 29, 2018

Feds Release New Quality Data Online

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McKnight's Long Term Care News reports that the federal government has released new data on the quality of care delivered in ski...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

2019 Medicare Advantage Plans Incorporate Long Term Care, Aging in Place Benefits

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S ome Medicare Advantage Plan (hereafter simply "Plan") issuers are quietly and carefully adding home-based and community-based...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

CMS Announces 2019 Medicare Premiums and Deductibles

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On October 12, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2019 premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance am...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Social Security Announces 2019 Changes

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has released the 2019 benefit changes.   Based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Declining SNF Utilization

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There is increasing evidence that either (1) utilization of nursing homes is rapidly diminishing, or (2) utilization of nursing homes has...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Conservator Owes Duty to Nursing Home to Timely Apply for Medicaid

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A Connecticut appeals court has held that a nursing home resident's conservator owes a duty of care to the nursing home to timely app...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Wealthy Nursing Home Residents Would Prefer to Age in Place- Would Pay Family For Care

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A new survey of wealthy seniors suggests that many of nursing homes’ potential residents would prefer to receive long-term care at home,...
Monday, October 8, 2018

A Military App for Military Moms and Dads - Babies on the Homefront App is Military Parent Approved

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[The following article is penned by Jennifer Novak, Senior Writer and Training Specialist for Military Family Projects and reprinted with...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

Veterans to Receive "Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act" Letters

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In 2016, Congress passed a law known as the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act . The law entitles more than 133,000 injured vetera...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Ohio Guardian's Sale of Medicaid Recipient's House Approved as being In Her Best Interest

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A guardian can sell a Medicaid recipient's house even though the mortgage loan was in default, because the mortgage company had not fore...