tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 22

Senior Care: Coalition Says New Rule Undercuts Eldercare Improvements

$5 billion cut could put care needs of nursing home patients at risk A newly issued Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule, which, by regulatory means, will cut by $5 billion over five years the amount Medicare sends to nursing homes, is facing tough opposition from the Coalition to Protect Senior Care, says a May 5 press release from CPSC. Caregiver groups warn that this rule will undermine the growing complex-care needs of America's oldest, sickest nursing-home patients and undercut ongoing improvements in the clinical infrastructure already under way. Lisa Cantrell, a co-founder of the National Association of...

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