A federal watchdog said Tuesday it has begun auditing nursing homes’ use of the Patient Driven Payment Model to drive skilled ...

The Justice Department’s civil division this week published its annual report to Congress on efforts to combat elder fraud and abuse, highlighting several high-profile nursing home investigations in ...

Federal officials' continued pursuit of the Skyline case and serious prison time were unusual in a healthcare fraud case, sending a chilling message to providers.

The breakdown of perineuronal nets (PNN) in the brain lead to failure to recognize family, friends and caregivers among patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to an October study published ...

Neighborhoods in the highest quintile, or top 20%, of structural racism experienced significantly higher rates of cardiovascular clinical and behavioral risk factors and cardiovascular diseases ...

I don’t know about you, but it drives me “batty” when Halloween is barely over and the stores are filled with Thanksgiving AND Christmas AND Hanukkah AND ...

Among the 5 million people at risk of losing Medicaid coverage because of new eligibility requirements, 40% have at least three chronic health conditions. That is according to an October study ...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) issued new practice points stating that adults over age 65 should receive either a standard-dose trivalent or a standard-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine ...

The story of a failed patient transition from hospital discharge to post-acute care is familiar, even when, at first, all seems routine. For ...

The first state-level artificial intelligence-powered survey intelligence platform in the nation has been launched.

Hospitals are referring a larger share of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which typically favor home health as the provider of any additional step-down care, a recent study ...

The story of a failed patient transition from hospital discharge to post-acute care is familiar, even when, at first, all seems routine. For instance, a 78-year-old woman recovering from heart failure ...