The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to give states the opportunity to build more veterans homes in rural areas.

Researchers recently found that a reduced ability to identify odors was associated with diminishing cognition in a group of healthy high-risk older people.

New rule aims to encourage hospitals, doctors, and post-acute providers to collaborate on the most effective ways to coordinate care.

Even as President Trump pushes Republican leaders to take up health care reform when Congress returns to Capitol Hill, political reality will most likely keep it at bay.

Provider group maintains arbitration agreements are a fair and deliberative way to settle legal disputes.

CMS issues its 2018 final rule for acute-care and long term care hospital prospective payment systems.

Payment increase was capped at 1 percent as a byproduct of last year’s permanent “doc fix.”

Early Friday morning, July 28, members of the Senate voted down the latest bill in its ultimate strategy to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

A 54.5 percent rise in the mortality rate of people with Alzheimer’s disease may have off-setting contingencies, geriatrician says.

Members of the Senate today approved a motion to proceed with debate on legislation to repeal and replace Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

The Senate moves one step closer in the quest to expand veterans’ access to local long term and post-acute care centers.

The latest CBO “score” for the Senate health bill again shows 22 million Americans losing health insurance coverage over the next 10 years.

An international group of experts from 13 nations has published a new set of clinical practice guideline recommendations for the management of frailty.

With the defections late on July 17 by two conservative Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could not muster the 50 votes required to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and replace legislation.

Seniors housing inventories outpaced the number of people living in assisted living, skilled nursing, and other types of homes in the second quarter of 2017, NIC reports.

Revised health care bill in Senate shows no changes that would improve the lot of the Medicaid program over the original version.

New analysis by The Commonwealth Fund predicts steep job losses if the Senate version of Affordable Care Act repeal-and-replace legislation ever becomes law.

A new report looks at how hospitals and ACOs are starting to view SNFs as important links in the care continuum.

The year-long delay will be used to educate providers on Phase 2 details and possibly to issue correction plans or additional directed in-service training.

CBO figures for the replacement health bill’s second decade escalate criticism.

House passes the Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017 (HR 1215), which would reform health care liability laws.

Senate delays vote as a result of uproar over health care bill’s cuts to Medicaid.