{"id":542,"date":"2018-02-07T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=542"},"modified":"2018-02-07T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T20:28:25","slug":"new-york-times-critical-of-nursing-home-arrangements-with-related-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2018\/02\/07\/new-york-times-critical-of-nursing-home-arrangements-with-related-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Critical of Nursing Home Arrangements with Related Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/susanvkayser.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Susan V. Kayser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/02\/business\/nursing-homes-care-corporate.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on January 2, 2018, that according to financial disclosures to Medicare, nursing home contracts with related companies accounted for $11 billion of nursing home spending in 2015. According to the report, this amounts to a tenth of nursing home costs. The basis of the <em>Times<\/em> report was an <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/care-suffers-as-more-nursing-homes-feed-money-into-corporate-webs\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a> undertaken by Kaiser Health News. The <em>Times<\/em> article, which focused on care problems encountered by a family at a New York nursing home, was critical of related-company arrangements, saying that they allow nursing home owners to arrange contracts where the nursing homes pay more than they might in a competitive market. Further, the article said, owners can \u201csiphon off\u201d profits that are not recorded on the nursing home\u2019s books. The <em>Times<\/em> report stated that the Kaiser Health News analysis found that nursing homes doing business with related companies (1) employ, on average, 8 percent fewer nurses and aides; (2) were 9 percent more likely to have hurt residents or immediate jeopardy findings; (3) had 53 substantiated complaints for every 1,000 beds, compared with 32 per 1,000 beds where no related party arrangements were in place; and (4) were fined 22 percent more often for serious health violations and penalties at an average of $24,441, a rate 7 percent higher than homes with no related-party arrangements. The Kaiser analysis also found that for-profit nursing homes use related company arrangements more frequently than nonprofit corporations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan V. Kayser The New York Times reported on January 2, 2018, that according to financial disclosures to Medicare, nursing home contracts with related companies accounted for $11 billion of nursing home spending in 2015. According to the report, this amounts to a tenth of nursing home costs. The basis of the Times report &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2018\/02\/07\/new-york-times-critical-of-nursing-home-arrangements-with-related-companies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New York Times Critical of Nursing Home Arrangements with Related Companies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[393,101,752,10,753,751,48,754,630],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-law","tag-hospice","tag-inpatient-rehabilitation-facilities","tag-kaiser-health-news","tag-medicare","tag-new-york-times","tag-nursing-home-contracts","tag-nursing-homes","tag-related-companies","tag-susan-v-kayser"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}