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Article: What's ahead for 2003: a Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management roundup. (Cover Feature).
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Can it get any worse? Long-term care managers might be tempted to ask that as they look ahead. Actually, though, 2002 was a mixed bag for long-term care, with some positive signs glimmering among the usual strong negatives. True, the liability insurance crisis continues to threaten bottom lines across the United States; Medicare funding went over a "cliff" in October, pending a hoped-for last-minute save by a lame-duck Congress; states are sharpening their Medicaid budget-cutting knives; and staffing problems linger, bad economy or not. But ever-resilient providers seem to have reorganized themselves after the Medicare PPS meltdown; private long-term care insurance got a ...