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Centers Cuts Rate From $510 to $410

Centers Cuts Rate From $510 to $410 Nursing Home Fee Affects ‘Private Payers’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Centers Healthcare has advised the local Family Council it will scale back its April 1 increase in the “private payer” rate at its local nursing home (the former Focus) from $510 to $410 a day, Family Council chair Betsy Hayes has reported in an e-mail. She said Aharon Lantzitsky, Centers division president, had just called her: “He wanted…

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EDITORIAL: Who’ll Protect Us From Centers?

Editorial, May 25, 2018 Who’ll Protect Us From Centers? News that Centers Health Care has raised the private-payer rate at the former county-owned Otsego Manor from $300 to $510 a day – $186,000 a year, the state’s highest – is almost too sad to contemplate. Gary Koutnik, county board vice chairman and chair of the board’s Human Service Committee, reacted with the standard response: Since the once-excellent facility is privatized, what happens at Centers, nee Focus, is no longer the…

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