by Gordon Hensley | Feb 8, 2012 | Campaign 2012, health care, Medicare Cuts, SNF, Uncategorized
As the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives begin making crucial budgetary decisions for FY 2013, a recent survey conducted for the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care by Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research Associates underscores the saliency political...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 15, 2011 | Campaign 2012, health care, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts
Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill were more than miffed at Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) decision to join Republican Paul Ryan on a new Medicare reform plan. But Wyden says the negative criticism will subside once the plan is actually reviewed. But that’s not likely in...
by Gordon Hensley | Dec 29, 2010 | CMS, health care, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts, SNF
Capitol Hill lawmakers, regulators and the media have heard it all before at the onset of the annual budget dance: No cuts to Medicare — especially as state budgetary chaos has eroded Medicaid funding stability. With the 2012 budget debate about to get underway...
by Gordon Hensley | Jul 12, 2010 | health care, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts |
Here’s the latest op-ed authored by Strategic Media, Inc. for a client, the Texas Health Care Association (THCA), appearing in the Sunday, July 11 edition of the Houston Chronicle: Nursing Homes Merit Higher Priority During Hurricane Season By TIM GRAVES AND...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 12, 2010 | Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Medicare Cuts, SNF |
Putting aside the various policy benefits and liabilities associated with the respective Senate and House health care reform bills, currently buried in a snowdrift of indecision somewhere on Capitol Hill, the House bill’s temporary federal medical assistance...
by Gordon Hensley | Nov 16, 2009 | CMS, Health Reform, Medicare Cuts, SNF |
The health care reform bill (HR 3962) that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by the slimmest of margins last week was dealt a serious setback this weekend when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new study that, according to the...
