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: Illinois Nursing Home Abuse BlogMedicare May Cut Nursing Home Payments to Trim Budget
By Levin & Perconti
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has threatened to cut its payments for nursing homes by 0.3%. Though the percentage seems small, the economic consequences in the nursing home industry will be much larger. This cut could usher in a total of $4.2 billion and has nursing home industry financiers attempting to figure out what these cuts could look like to nursing home profits for the next few years. Unfortunately, profit often seems the only priority for operators of large nursing home chains. All too often, profits are placed above patient and resident care and can lead to cases of nursing home abuse and neglect, and even nursing home resident deaths.
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Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).
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