From McKnight's: (click for full article)
Tom Scully wondered privately before his keynote address at a seniors housing and care conference last week why he was being asked to speak. Afterwards, long-term care executives in the audience were probably wondering the same thing.
Scully scorched them. He returned time and again to the topic of excessive Medicare payments long-term care providers quietly accepted under a new payment system two years ago. Ultimately, the $5 billion was yanked back this year by embarrassed yet indignant federal regulators.
And they won't forget it, warned Scully, the former chief of the Medicare & Medicaid Services Administration. The galling take by long-term care providers didn't happen under his watch — he was CMS administrator from 2001 to 2004, one of the reasons he wondered why he was still being asked to speak — but he proved he still knew what was going on.
Tom Scully wondered privately before his keynote address at a seniors housing and care conference last week why he was being asked to speak. Afterwards, long-term care executives in the audience were probably wondering the same thing.
Scully scorched them. He returned time and again to the topic of excessive Medicare payments long-term care providers quietly accepted under a new payment system two years ago. Ultimately, the $5 billion was yanked back this year by embarrassed yet indignant federal regulators.
And they won't forget it, warned Scully, the former chief of the Medicare & Medicaid Services Administration. The galling take by long-term care providers didn't happen under his watch — he was CMS administrator from 2001 to 2004, one of the reasons he wondered why he was still being asked to speak — but he proved he still knew what was going on.
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