The Supreme Court removed the broad discretion regulatory agencies possess to set rules for the entities they cover. The elimination of the “Chevron” doctrine will have significant negative implications across the nursing home industry. It may even impact the outcome of specific lawsuits challenging the CMS regulation for nursing home staffing mandates. The majority in
A recent study conducted by Matthew P. Maughan examined more than 9,000 US nursing homes across 610 different chains. Maughan told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: “Large chains benefit in terms of administrative efficiency, but staffing is one of those inputs to the process that does not ‘scale’ well; larger employers can get by on less
Juries are going “nuclear” by compensating victims with increasing large verdicts against U.S companies. This trend is making insurance policies more costly and harder to come by for those nursing homes that neglect and abuse vulnerable adults. The number of cases where the Jury awards $10 million against corporate defendants, known as “nuclear” verdicts, has
A researcher from the University of Texas found a pattern of poor health outcomes in skilled nursing facilities that fraudulently overbilled Medicare. The paper, “Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry,” revealed how patients at fraudulent Skilled Nursing Facilities suffered worse health outcomes because those facilities sought to increase revenue rather than
German-American historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt in her 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist,” she wrote, “but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction…and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” Trump is saying crazy things again. His
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