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PDPM Provides $200/Day Medicare Boost to Nursing Homes During COVID: ‘It Arrived Just in Time’

by user | Dec 3, 2020 | News, Uncategorized

The new Medicare payment model for nursing homes provided $200 more per day than the system it replaced in October 2019, according to a new analysis of claims data — setting up a revenue bump at the time the sector needed it most. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

BD Exec: Antigen Tests Are Reliable on COVID-19, But Community Spread Plays Role in False Results

by user | Dec 3, 2020 | News, Uncategorized

The federal government’s push to send out rapid point-of-care antigen test for COVID-19 to all nursing homes officially wrapped in the early months of autumn. But for many skilled nursing facilities, the use of the tests was fraught, with questions lingering about...

‘If There’s No Trust, There’ll Be More Hesitancy’: Nursing Homes Must Overcome Staff Skepticism of COVID Vaccine

by user | Dec 2, 2020 | News, Uncategorized

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was emphatic in a Tuesday meeting that it has the systems and processes in place to keep track of any adverse events from a COVID-19 vaccine, whenever one is approved. Whether that is enough to quell the concerns of...

NIC: Stalled Skilled Nursing Occupancy of 74% ‘Threatens Long-Term Survival’ of Facilities

by user | Dec 2, 2020 | News, Uncategorized

Occupancy at the nation’s skilled nursing facilities remains stalled well below pre-pandemic levels, prompting a major data provider in the space to sound alarm bells about the financial state of the space heading into a potentially devastating winter. The nation’s...

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  • PDPM Provides $200/Day Medicare Boost to Nursing Homes During COVID: ‘It Arrived Just in Time’
  • BD Exec: Antigen Tests Are Reliable on COVID-19, But Community Spread Plays Role in False Results
  • ‘If There’s No Trust, There’ll Be More Hesitancy’: Nursing Homes Must Overcome Staff Skepticism of COVID Vaccine
  • NIC: Stalled Skilled Nursing Occupancy of 74% ‘Threatens Long-Term Survival’ of Facilities

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