Medicare changed the rules for paying skilled nursing facilities in hopes of reducing waste, fraud, and abuse. Instead of rewarding therapy volume, the new payment model placed more weight on patient diagnoses and clinical complexity. That was the intent. A recent Forbes piece highlights what happened next: facilities began coding residents as having more illnesses
ProPublica reported on Joseph Schwartz. Schwartz was found guilty for running a $39 million payroll tax scheme connected to his nursing home. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison. A content and fairly young Doris Coulson liked to watch cooking shows and show her granddaughter off at Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center. Unfortunately,
Last week, a new bipartisan bill to lower the cost of insulin gained traction in the Senate. The bill aims to cap the out-of-pocket costs of insulin to $35. This would cut costs for all Americans on Obamacare and on most commercial insurance plans. Despite already financing private insurance plans, Americans in 2019 paid, on
A Charleston Country Juvenile Detention Center has been found to be abusing children since the original detention center was built in 1967. The children who were incarcerated here and expected rehabilitation and proper care, were instead confined to restraint chairs and solitary confinement. The center was found to be abusing chlidren’s basic rights in a
Just last week, McKnights reported a federal watchdog confirmed the fears of many nursing home residents’ family members: their loved ones were being drugged. Probably because of unsafe and short staffing levels. A review of 40 nursing homes found that staff tends to diagnose healthy patients with Schizophrenia simply so they can administer antipsychotic sedative
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