October 2021

Digital version of Dealmaker’s Handbook 2021 Download the Dealmaker’s Handbook 2021 Among the articles: Q&A: NIC’s Brian Jurutka on how the sector has evolved Strategic shifts: Some pandemic...

Read the digital edition of the October 2021 print issue here. Select excerpts from this month’s magazine can also be found below.

We’re seeing some Medicare Advantage plans change to payment by “levels.” What can we do to ensure we’re being reimbursed accurately?

What form of proof must an employee provide when claiming a religious exemption from an employer’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate?

Rehabilitation therapists are experts at helping patients relearn the skills needed to lead functional lives. Over the course of the pandemic, therapists themselves have learned to improvise on the fly...

The knives are out, now that former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) has resigned.

Nursing home operators must have been speeding to buy lottery tickets on Sept. 10. After two days of unexpectedly good news from the White House and regulators, who could have blamed anyone if they wanted ...

When Diversicare Healthcare Services’ 61 skilled nursing facilities (and the rest of its holdings) move to a new owner later this year, it likely will become much more difficult to see what’s happening...

If you’re close to my aging vintage, you remember those adorable pioneers on the TV show “Little House on the Prairie.” Now we’re living in their world. Menaced by fires, floods, climate change...

While the pandemic slowed some rollouts, technology on the horizon will help provide safer solutions for LTC.