Safety-net hospitals in Texas that have benefitted from additional federal funds for owning private nursing homes will soon see those payments cut, according to The Dallas Morning News. A provision ...

Health care at any level is expensive, but at the top of the list is nursing home care. The national annual median cost of care for a resident in a private room in a nursing home is now $127,750, ...

Data: Assisted Living Magazine/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Nursing homes across the country rely heavily on Medicaid, with the safety net program covering ...

Older adults participate in a falls prevention awareness day of action in Fort Worth, Texas, in September. Around the nation, doctors, lawmakers, advocates and patients are ringing alarm bells over ...

We had to go in search of a facility that had a Medicaid bed, because he ran through his savings and lived beyond it. We ...

Some hospitals are using a part of Medicaid’s reimbursement formula to improve their financial footing through buying nursing homes, Kaiser Health News reports. Here are four things to know about the ...

An employee of the Amistad Nursing and Rehabilitation Center walks with a resident on April 1, 2021. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Texas has been violating federal law for decades by ...

Most of us would appreciate the ability to maintain our dignity in old age. Elderly people lose the potency of their immune systems, the ability to maintain muscle mass and can experience the ...

Dr. Fred Levin has been watching with growing alarm the national debate around federal cuts to Medicaid. He’s responsible for the medical care of about 100 older adults at the Community PACE center in ...