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<title><![CDATA[ Ferguson Budget Ingores Frail Elderly ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Budgets are about choices.  When projected expense exceeds revenue by close to one billion dollars, those choices become difficult.  While we accept there ar ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:06:09 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Leading Age Washington Announcement ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/leading-age-washington-announcement</link>
<description><![CDATA[ I am pleased to announce that beginning September 1, 2023, I will be doing consulting work with Leading Age Washington [LAW] related to both Skilled Nursing and ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:08:39 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ CMS Staffing Standard Set to Close Nursing Homes ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/cms-staffing-standard-set-to-close-nursing-homes</link>
<description><![CDATA[  CMS is preparing to release the long-awaited nursing home staffing standard which they promised sometime this spring.  According to my celestial calendar, th ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 17:09:19 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Health Plan ACH and ERA ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/health-plan-ach-and-era</link>
<description><![CDATA[  In March 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services released guidance regarding health plans payments of health care claims using virtual credit cards ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:45:06 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Nursing Home Providers Deserve a Real Win ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Recently, Mark Parkinson, President, and CEO of the American Healthcare Association [AHCA] declared, “we won” in referring to the recent 2.7% rate increase cont ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill Ulrich, CEO  ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 20:15:56 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ COVID Greed ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/covid-greed</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Over the past year literally billions of dollars have been pumped into the long term care sector in an effort to compensate Providers for COVID related expense ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 23:29:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Analysis of Medicaid Underfunding to Washington SNFs ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/analysis-of-medicaid-underfunding-to-washington-snfs</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Consolidated Billing Services, Inc recently completed an analysis concerning the incremental cost nursing homes have experienced related to the COVID 19 pandemi ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:33:51 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Long Term Care Patients and Care Givers Deserve Better ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Washington State nursing home providers are underfunded to the tune of around 116 million.  That is a fact as determined by the Department of Social and Health ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 19:55:10 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The National Media is at it again ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The national media is at it again.  No, I am not referring to “fake news” nor do I wish to paint the entire media with the same brush.  Yet, on November 29, 201 ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ CMS &quot;Clarifies&quot; SNF Under Arrangement Provision ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/cms-clarifies-snf-under-arrangement-provision</link>
<description><![CDATA[ On October 4, 2019, CMS published an update to Chapter 8 section of 70.4 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual inserting additional criteria which serves to pro ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ King5 News Missed The Story ]]></title>
<link>https://www.billing-services.com/blog/post/king5-news-missed-the-story</link>
<description><![CDATA[ On August 27, 2019 King five news released a short news piece identifying that “19 of the Nation’s worst rated nursing homes are here in Washington.”  To see th ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Washington Medicaid Funding in Crisis ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  On June 21, 2019, National Public Radio published a story by Austin Jenkins regarding nursing home closures in Washington State and in that story they discuss ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Why Are They here? ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For each Medicare Part A admission the skilled nursing facility should determine the primary reason for skilled care; “why are they here?”  This should be one o ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The difference between Orcas and the Elderly. ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Governor Inslee Failed the ElderlyIt seems Governor Inslee doesn’t recognize the difference between Orcas and the frail elderly.  In his budget released on Thu ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Crisis in Long Term Care ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A colleague asked the other day if Washington skilled nursing facilities are in crisis.  I have worked closely with this group of providers for thirty years and ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Bill J Ulrich ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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