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Can the US health-care workforce keep pace with demand?

Volume 404, Issue 10469
7 December 2024 
WORLD REPORT  A physician and nurse shortage hinders access to care but efforts to educate, recruit, and retain more providermay be threatened. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

The uninsured rate in the United States is at an historic low. But a shortage of health-care providers means even people who can afford to go to the doctor might not be able to find one.[Full story here, from The Lancet’s special issue, “A Presidential Briefing Book.”]…

Medicaid Weighs Attaching Strings to Nursing Home Payments to Improve Patient Care

By Susan Jaffe  | Kaiser Health News | June 10, 2022 | This KHN story also ran on Fortune logo

The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents and limit the amount that is used for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements or diverted to profits.

If adopted, it would be the first time the federal government insists that nursing homes devote the majority of Medicaid dollars to caring for residents.

“The absolutely critical ingredient” for good care is sufficient staffing, Dan Tsai, a deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicaid director, told KHN. [Full story in Kaiser Health News, Fortune, Yahoo News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch]  

 

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