Ownership

Connecticut has new transparency rules for nursing home owners and will require a “plain language” explanation of how Medicaid rates are set. 

You may think you know the story: Private equity firms buying up healthcare businesses and sticking it to payers.

Well, we certainly can’t say the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services always misses with its promises.

Providers had a mixed response Wednesday afternoon to a new effort to create more public awareness of nursing home ownership, in particular when facilities share a parent organization.

Connecticut’s nursing home owners will be required to disclose ties to private equity companies or real estate investment trusts under new state rules. 

A small group of Democrats have joined with US Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to turn up the bipartisan heat on federal regulators as they weigh increasing transparency into nursing homes’ ownership structures. 

A biennial report on long-term care costs should include specific questions about nursing homes’ complex ownership structures and complete costs to payers, according to the top Republican on the US Senate...

The attorneys general from a diverse group of states have thrown their support behind a federal proposal to increase disclosure of nursing home ownership and related party information, saying the current...

What are CHOW’s, and why are they relevant to me working in a healthcare facility? Suffice it to say that this market craze is affecting all aspects of the skilled nursing world, especially on the financial...

Greater insight into potential buyers is just one possible benefit of proposed rules that would make publicly available more information about private equity and real estate investment trust ownership...