(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Getty ImagesUntil now, the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats have focused on Medicaid’s home-based long-term care program. · Require nursing facilities to report more accurate quality and staffing data to the government. The bill is in some ways modest, in that it maintains the basic structure of facility-based long-term care. Nursing homes have been demanding their own Medicaid funding increase, arguing that they cannot provide quality care for the limited payment they receive from Medicaid. Their bill increases the chance that Congress will boost funding and enact some reforms to Medicaid’s long-term care program.

Source: Forbes August 11, 2021 15:11 UTC