Eleven states plan post-acute initiatives using CMS Rural Health Transformation Program funding to improve care coordination ...

Post-acute medical facilities disproportionately reject referrals of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), according to a new study. The study was conducted by Boston Medical Center’s ...

The U.S. health system focuses an enormous amount of money and attention on post-acute care—the medical treatment patients receive after they have been discharged from a hospital. But it would more ...

In MA, the privately run alternative to Medicare, the government pays insurers to manage seniors’ care. The plans can offer a greater range of benefits than in traditional Medicare, such as dental, ...

Discharging a patient to a skilled nursing facility or other type of post-acute care facility after surgery can add more than $5,000 to care costs and is associated with worse outcomes for older adult ...

Despite the extreme inside-the-Beltway focus on healthcare reform, there’s been hardly a mention of tackling reform of our long-term care system. This is curious when you stop to consider that these ...

This article is sponsored by TeamHealth. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with Jessica Stone, ...

Starting January 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) – a mandatory five-year initiative designed to improve ...

Lawyers at Kean Miller on Wednesday removed a lawsuit against Post Acute Medical and PAM Specialty Hospital of Shreveport to Louisiana Western District Court. The suit, over a non-compete and ...