Medicaid programs continue to face increasing financial pressure in 2026 and that pressure is flowing directly into reimbursement. As state budgets tighten and enrollment remains elevated, reimbursement processes are becoming more complex, more scrutinized and less forgiving as the year progresses. At the same time, oversight of long-term care reimbursement is intensifying. Medicaid Pending days, […]

Value-based healthcare programs have been shifting provider’s payments from fee-for-service for more than a decade, rewarding providers who focus on patient outcomes rather than patient volume. Value-based healthcare programs are part of a larger long-term strategy to improve the way healthcare is delivered and paid for in the U.S., to improve patient outcomes, minimize growing […]

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other institutional healthcare providers that plan to bill Medicare are required to publicly disclose their ownership and management information, per requirements of the Social Security Act and the Medicare program. In efforts to collect a more complete background on these organizations, and the individuals that own and oversee them, additional […]