Meet the Press had Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina on the show a couple of weeks ago. “‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ was not supposed to be a road map, right?” –comparing recent Republican policies on women’s health care to Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel in which women are forced to give birth. Only eight
Senate Democrats passed legislation to reduce the deficit and inflation. Many of the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act will reduce health care costs. The law will significantly reduce the budget deficit. Here are the bill’s main provisions: The law allows CMS to negotiate Medicare drug costs with Big Pharma. No more price-gouging. The measure
After Melanie Barker died alone in a nursing home, it took nearly a month for her family to be notified of her death.
Sierra Sun Times reported another horrific assault of an elderly man. Police arrested Steven Austin Jr for felony elder abuse after a violent assault on a 67-year-old man. On Thursday, July 14th, 2022, at 6:41 P.M., officers responded to a fight in progress. A neighbor intervened and detained Austin. Witnesses reported that Austin punched the victim
Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) went into effect Oct. 1, 2019, and was the biggest change to the nursing home reimbursement system in at least a generation — replacing the previous case-mix classification system, Resource Utilization Group – IV. Under RUG-IV, patients were classified into a therapy payment group. The volume of therapy services provided
KAIT8 reported that Dunklin County Prosecutors Office charged a nursing home resident with the murder of another resident. According to a press release from the prosecutor, Shedrick White, 57, strangled Marvin Hale at the Senath South Health Care Center nursing home. Where were the staff members? How could they allow this to happen? Police discovered
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