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June 10, 2015, Emily Mongan, McKnights - An increasing reliance on Medicaid to pay for long-term care supports and services has put the sustainability of the system in jeopardy, experts warned Wednesday. But individual states are becoming laboratories to test reform measures that…
June 4, 2015, Jason Oliva, Senior Housing News - In efforts to better detect and treat the early stages of Alzheimer's and dementia, one Dallas-based continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is partnering with a local memory care specialist on a campus-wide brain health research…
June 4, 2015, Jason Oliva, Senior Housing News - Construction: Planned - Dallas CCRC Plans $36 Million Expansion - Edgemere, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Dallas, will soon begin a large-scale expansion and renovation project to address the growing…
June 4, 2015, Cassandra Dowell, Senior Housing News - General Electric Co. is reaching out to potential buyers of GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services, which lends to senior housing among other health care companies. The company is valued at between $10 and $11 billion, according…
June 4, 2015, Emily Mongan, McKnights - The Senate Finance Committee has approved legislation aimed at changing how improper Medicare payments are handled by Recovery…
June 3, 2015, Holly Petrovich, McKnights - The federal government recovered $1.8 billion from healthcare providers and programs in the first six months of fiscal 2015, a federal watchdog has revealed. Of the recoveries, $544.7 million was from audit receivables and $1.3 billion…
June 3, 2015, Emily Study, Senior Housing News - The first quarter of 2015 was marked by weak absorption and falling occupancy levels for senior housing properties, fueling the industry's concern that some markets are overheating. Among those underperforming amrkets are Houston,…
June 2, 2015, Emily Mongan, McKnights - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court regarding whether or not an arbitration agreement…
May 31, 2015, Emily Study, Senior Housing News - Senior housing and care has attracted a growing amount of interest among investors who are are eager to capitalize on the industry's favorable market fundamentals. Some of the top investors, health care real estate investment trusts…
May 31, 2015, John Hall, McKnights - Medicaid managed care plans would be limited to fraud prevention expenditures of 0.5% of premium revenue when calculating medical loss ratios, signaling high confidence from federal regulators that such plans are already performing well with…