Skilled nursing facilities cut therapist staffing levels after the transition to PDPM and did not offset those changes with other hiring, according to a new study.

The sale of the business unit to a private equity firm will provide Perrigo with upward of $2 billion in available cash and serves as part of a "transformation plan" as the company has shifted toward more self-care products.

Proposed legislation would continue using Medicaid funds to place recipients on private health insurance. But, under the proposal, those who don't work or go to school could be moved to the traditional fee-for-service Medicaid program. More than 300,000 people are currently on the state's Medicaid expansion.

The U.S. vaccine campaign has heightened tensions between rural and urban America, where from Oregon to Tennessee to upstate New York complaints are surfacing of a real — or perceived — inequity in vaccine allocation.