During a House subcommittee hearing on post-acute care held on Tuesday, Medicare Advantage plans were the target of bipartisan criticism as lawmakers sought solutions to curb the declining access to and affordability of nursing home care, as well as other long-term care, amid staffing shortfalls and proposed Medicaid cuts. Improper denials and delays by Medicare […]
A bill to permanently waive the three-day inpatient hospital stay requirement for Medicare coverage of a skilled nursing stay was introduced in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, an attempt to make the pandemic-related change stick around long-term. The bipartisan legislation, titled the “Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act,” was sponsored by Reps. Joe Courtney […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the nursing home sector and exposed endemic flaws in the long-term care system in the U.S., several witnesses testified before members of the House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee in a video briefing held Thursday. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis heard testimony from a range of witnesses on the […]
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