A recent study highlighted in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News reveals that Medicare spends approximately $4.4 billion each year on 47 different low-value medical services—procedures that provide little to no clinical benefit to patients. Imaging services, including unnecessary CT scans and X-rays, account for about 95% of this spending. These findings align with broader research from
Medicaid is the single most extensive health insurance program in the U.S. This public program covers 71 million low-income, disabled, and elderly U.S residents, pays for half of all U.S births, and provides care for 6 in 10 nursing home residents. According to the American Hospital Association, Medicaid is one of the most cost-efficient health
Republicans passed the reconciliation bill which included a 10-year delay on the federal staffing mandate, no change in nursing home provider taxes, and sweeping spending cuts that will indirectly affect skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). This bill cuts $1 trillion in health care and food assistance spending but will increase the national deficit by $3.4 trillion
Trump intends to cut Medicaid by more than $800 billion over the next decade. McKnight’s reported on a recent study conducted by Vincent Mor, PhD, a noted long-term care researcher in Brown’s Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice. He notes that 579 nursing homes are named in a new report as being at “elevated risk”
The Republican Senate passed a big spending bill that will increase deficits for decades. Two things are admitted by Republicans who voted for the bill. First, it would cut taxes in a way that would only benefit the wealthiest Americans. Second, to recoup some of that lost revenue, it would cut health care programs, particularly
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