Shifting payment policies have decreased Medicare spending on patients requiring mechanical ventilation, but they also have led to the closure of many long-term care hospitals and have driven more ...

Few patient populations are more vulnerable to the shifting winds around health care today than Medicare beneficiaries who ...

When Medicare started reimbursing nursing homes based on how sick their residents are, the facilities started reporting an increasing number of illnesses ...

After an initial pilot program, Medicare has introduced a new model for treating patients with dementia this year. The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience Model, called GUIDE, is a voluntary ...

Medicare patients with opioid use disorder are less likely to be admitted to highly rated skilled nursing home facilities, a new study finds. Investigators from Brown University conducted the study to ...