Effective April 1, CMS is requiring home health and hospice care eligibility for Medicare patients be authorized by a provider in a face-to-face patient encounter, according to an AHA News Now report.

US nursing homes failed to report 43% of major falls, according to a new report and accompanying data snapshot published by a federal watchdog Thursday. The Health and Human Services Office of ...

Many people will need to stay in a nursing home at some point in their lives. How much care they'll need and how long they need to stay, however, can be hard to predict. And unfortunately, Medicare ...

Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect. More than 1 ...

St. Paul, Minnesota, 73 year old woman in a nursing home because of a stroke. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Do nursing home owners understate the profits they ...