“Nursing Facilities Need to Weather the ‘Reimbursement Storm’ of Medicare Advantage,” by Amy Stulick, Skilled Nursing News   Quote: “With Medicare Advantage revenue “significantly lower” than fee-for-service reimbursement, a new Zimmet Healthcare Services Group analysis says, skilled nursing facilities need to weather today’s “reimbursement storm” in order to make it to the incoming wave of baby boomers that will need facility services.”   LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: Medicaid reimbursement rates were already less than the cost of providing the care. With Medicare Advantage in the mix there is another filter screening out revenue
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“Medicaid’s safety net for pregnant women,” by Bob Herman, Axios   Quote: “Fewer women are uninsured (10.5%) nationally than men (13.4%), due in large part to Medicaid providing pregnancy coverage for low-income women. By the numbers: 16.1% of women are on Medicaid, compared with 12.7% of men, according to census data analyzed by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Yes, but: Large swaths of the South still have restrictive Medicaid coverage or didn’t expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, leaving 1 in 5 women without insurance in states like Oklahoma and Texas. And while Medicaid pays for 43% of all births, that coverage can be short-lived
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“Tallying the Cost of Growing Older,” by Paula Span, New York Times   Quote: “Their results: Seventeen percent of 65-year-olds will need no long-term care. Almost one-quarter will develop severe needs, requiring many hours of help for more than three years. Most older people will fall between those poles, with 22 percent having only minimal needs. The largest group, 38 percent, can expect moderate needs — like support while they recover from a heart attack, after which they can again function independently. … The researchers calculated how much care retirees would need, how much they could receive from family and
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