Category: General - Part 2

FL, OH, IL, PA, NC, LA, IN, TN, GA, NJ Skilled Nursing Facilities Take Biggest Medicare Funding Hit Resulting From Passage of Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 Washington, DC – A new Avalere Health analysis detailing the negative impact on Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) resulting from so called “bad debt” provisions passed in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 finds facilities in Florida, Ohio, Illinois,

As MedPAC Meets Today to Consider SNF Medicare Funding, Alliance Urges Caution as Facility Job Losses, Threat to Patient Care Proliferate Washington, DC – Concurrent to a new independent study finding the nation’s second largest health facility employer is already surviving on razor-thin operating margins, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (Alliance) today urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to make Medicare funding decisions based upon the significant, documented underfunding of Skilled Nursing

AHCA, Alliance Warn Sizable Job Losses in Key Economic Sector Undermines Obama Administration’s Economic Stimulus Objectives, Contrary to Broader Health Reform Goals Washington, DC — In releasing a new economic impact study detailing the importance of the skilled nursing facility (SNF) sector to the nation’s economic activity and employment base, leaders of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care today warned implementation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid