Long-Term Care Providers Drive Growth in Special Medicare Advantage Plans

SNN presents this guest analysis from Anne Tumlinson and Elizabeth Walsh of Anne Tumlinson Innovations. Health care providers selling Medicare Advantage (MA) products isn’t a new trend, but typically “providers” refers to hospitals, health systems, or physician groups. Few would expect nursing homes and assisted living operators to be able or willing to manage health care […]

Dying at Home in an Opioid Crisis: Hospices Grapple with Stolen Meds

While some of the nation’s ongoing long-term care issues have flown under the radar, the opioid epidemic has garnered significant media attention, particularly during the last presidential campaign. In this article from Kaiser Health News, reporter Melissa Bailey explores the intersection between these two ongoing American health care storylines, detailing how hospice providers struggle to determine whether […]

In The End, Even The Middle Class Would Feel GOP Cuts To Nursing Home Care

Skilled Nursing News Take: On the same day that Kaiser Health News published this story, American Health Care Association President and CEO Mark Parkinson estimated that the Senate’s health reform bill would ultimately cost individual SNFs $600,000 annually. This KHN story suggests what that might look like—compromising care for people like Alice Jacobs while forcing providers like Dogwood […]

3 Steps to Success in New Skilled Nursing Payment Models

by Laurie Thomas and Guy Cowart Historically, we as skilled nursing and therapy providers have been used to a level of industry stability. Within this familiar framework, we’ve trained our leaders with certainty and delivered care with a confident rhythm. Unfortunately, this model simply may not serve us well in the future, with our rapidly […]