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Senate committee advances bills to identify failing nursing homes and intervene earlier
Summary
The Senate Health Committee released two bills aimed at improving oversight of long-term care facilities, directing earlier state intervention for facilities at financial or operational risk and creating stronger sanctions for chronically low-performing nursing homes.
The New Jersey Senate Health Committee on an undisclosed date voted to release legislation that would (1) establish mission-critical teams to identify and intervene at long-term care facilities showing operational or financial distress and (2) create an escalated sanctions process for chronically low-performing nursing homes.
The measures matter because committee witnesses and members said existing state efforts have not stopped some facilities from providing persistently poor care while continuing to receive large Medicaid payments. Kevin Walsh, acting state comptroller, told the committee his office’s audits and investigations show “fraud, waste and abuse” in some nursing homes and estimated New Jersey spends about $2,000,000,000 a year on Medicaid in nursing homes.
Walsh described cases where operators use related entities to extract cash from facilities — for example,…
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