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Senate Democrats Move to Kill the AI Prior Authorization Pilot in Medicare — and Nursing Home Care Could Be in the Crosshairs

By Mordy YMay 23, 2026

Washington, D.C. — A group of Senate Democrats is pushing to dismantle one of the…

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CMS Just Proposed Capping a $510 Billion Medicaid Payment Stream That Nursing Homes Quietly Rely On

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Indiana Just Killed Its Own Managed Medicaid Experiment for Nursing Homes — and the Numbers Show Why

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NHI May Sell More Nursing Home Assets After a $560 Million Deal — And Skilled Nursing Could Still Be on the Chopping Block

By Mordy YMay 26, 20262 Mins Read

Skilled Nursing Is Suddenly One of the Hottest Real Estate Trades — and a Top Investor Says Three Forces Are Driving It

By Sarah KMay 24, 20263 Mins Read

A Bankruptcy Judge Just Approved the $40 Million Sale of a Pennsylvania Nursing Home — to the Same Operator That Couldn’t Pay Its Rent

By Sarah KMay 23, 20263 Mins Read

Omega Healthcare Just Named a New CEO and a New CFO — One of Skilled Nursing’s Biggest Landlords Is About to Look Very Different at the Top

By Ahuva SMay 21, 20263 Mins Read

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Some Nursing Home Medical Directors Are Going Missing When CMS Enforcement Hits — and Two State Officials Just Said It Out Loud

By Chaya SMay 24, 20263 Mins Read

Washington, D.C. — When a nursing home enters a federal enforcement cycle, the medical director…

A Woman With No Nursing License Worked at Four New Mexico Care Facilities. Now She’s Facing 34 Felony Counts and Up to 100 Years.

By Ahuva SMay 22, 20263 Mins Read

Las Cruces, New Mexico — A grand jury in Doña Ana County has indicted a…

Three Senators Want a Federal Review of Senior Safety Tech — Nursing Homes Could End Up With New Tools and New Scrutiny

May 22, 2026

CMS Is Testing Lighter Inspections for Top Nursing Homes While Steering More Scrutiny to Troubled Facilities

May 5, 2026

CMS Is Auditing 1,500 Nursing Homes on Quality Data — and Missing the Deadline by a Single Day Could Cost 2% of Your Medicare Payment

May 5, 2026

PACS Group Is Now in 17 States and Nearly 36,000 Beds — and It Just Added Its Fourth Alaska Facility

May 4, 2026

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A 55-Year-Old California Nursing Home Was Destroyed in the Eaton Fire. Now It’s Suing the Utility It Says Started It.

May 24, 2026

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Arkansas Pulled a Nursing Home’s License After Investigators Said the Administrator Was Pocketing Resident Money

May 23, 2026

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CMS Wants Nursing Homes to Assess Every Resident — Not Just Medicare Ones. Industry Says the $88 Million Price Tag Is Way Off.

May 23, 2026

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CMS Just Set a 2-Year Deadline for Nursing Homes to Ditch the Fax Machine — and the Clock Starts Tuesday

May 23, 2026

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An Iowa Nursing Home Replaced 279 Oxycodone Pills With Vitamins. The State’s Punishment? A $500 Fine.

May 22, 2026

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Illinois Just Sent the Governor a Bill That Would Force In-Person Mental Health Reviews for Nursing Home Residents Within 60 Days

May 22, 2026

If I Ever Need a Nursing Home, Please Make It Valley West

CMS Just Started Investigating Whether Nursing Homes Are Quietly Inflating Their Medicare Bills

Omnicare Just Cleared a Major Hurdle — the Pharmacy That Fills Prescriptions for Thousands of Nursing Homes Has a New Owner

17 Senate Democrats Just Laid Out Their Plan to Bring Back Nursing Home Staffing Mandates After the Election

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HHS Is Pointing AI at Every State’s Federal Spending — and Nursing Home Medicaid Funding Could Be on the Line

By Mordy YMay 22, 20263 Mins Read

Missouri Just Cut Off a $12 Million Fund Nursing Homes Used to Pay for Staff Training

By Chaya SMay 22, 20263 Mins Read

Ohio Indicts 8 in Medicaid Fraud and Nursing Home Theft Cases — Including a Caregiver Who Billed From Jamaica

By Chaya SMay 21, 20263 Mins Read

Nursing Home Advocates to CMS: Slow Down on the Fraud Crackdown Before It Crushes the Operators Doing It Right

By Ahuva SMay 20, 20263 Mins Read

CMS Wants Nursing Homes to Report Quality Data on Every Resident — Not Just Medicare. The Industry Says the $88M Price Tag Is Way Off.

By Mordy YMay 20, 20263 Mins Read

A Bankruptcy Trustee Just Sued the Owners of 22 Collapsed Nursing Homes — Alleging They Drained at Least $17 Million Before the Crash

By Ahuva SMay 20, 20263 Mins Read

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