Medicare and Medicaid

Louisiana Nursing Home Medicare Cuts Total $20.3 Million Resulting From Recently-Passed Congressional Tax Bill

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, April 23rd, 2012

2012 APR 23 -- A new Avalere Health analysis detailing the negative impact on the nation's Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) resulting from so called "bad debt" provisions passed in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 finds Louisiana SNFs (more commonly known as nursing homes) will suffer a $20.3 million Medicare funding reduction - the sixth largest cut nationally.

"Like many states, Louisiana's Medicaid program is fragile," said Alan G. Rosenbloom, President of the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (AQNHC), which funded the analysis. "Because Medicare and Medicaid together pay for the care of approximately three of every four...

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Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2012-04-23)

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