Post-Acute

CMS issued final rules July 31 that increase payments to inpatient rehabilitation facilities and skilled-nursing facilities by $925 million.

Many healthcare organizations are still in the dark when it comes to understanding what drives costs after discharge, even though post-acute care costs are nearly equal to acute care costs, especially for patients with major joint replacements, pneumonia, heart failure,…

Google's home automation business Nest has been in talks with senior living homes about developing new products to help seniors live independently for longer, sources tell CNBC.

Nebraska officials fined Lincoln-based nursing home Christian Village $50,000 after staff failed to notify a patient's physician of accelerating asthma problems before the patient died in February, The State Journal-Register reports.

CMS introduced a new database that will assist healthcare organizations with the electronic exchange of health information as part of the MyHealthEData initiative, the agency announced June 21.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar spoke to  the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living in Washington, D.C., June 5 about  the transition to value-based care in the post-acute environment.

Nursing home representatives in Florida said facilities are better prepared for the hurricane season this year due to a new state generator law, more training and other efforts, according to a WJHG/WECP report.  

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare recently formed a joint venture, known as Homespire, with Minneapolis-based home health provider Lifesprk.

San Antonio-based Acuity Hospital of South Texas, a long-term acute care facility, will shut its doors on July 14, according to a news report from KSAT TV.

As of 2017, more than 32 million patients were covered by an ACO amid CMS' efforts to spur practice innovation and care redesign within the healthcare industry, according to a survey from the National Association of ACOs and Leavitt Partners.