On May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its controversial final rule imposing minimum staffing requirements for long term care facilities (the “Final Rule”). When it takes effect on June...more
On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its controversial final rule related to the first federally imposed minimum staffing requirements for long term care facilities (“Final Rule”).[i] ...more
With Nursing Homes Still Struggling to Rebuild After the COVID-19 Pandemic, is This Advisable?
When The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the PPS and Consolidated Billing Updates for Skilled Nursing...more
Efforts to reduce avoidable inpatient hospitalizations among nursing facility residents have been ongoing for years. As an example of these initiatives, CMS ran a program from 2012 to 2020 focusing on long-stay long-term...more
The scope and State enforcement related to visitation in nursing home and assisted living facilities in South Carolina is controversial and evolving on a regular basis. In recent weeks the South Carolina Department of...more
As of July 12, there have been 142,231 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 38,518 deaths in nursing homes. For this reason, CMS recently called nursing homes “ground zero for COVID-19” and announced enhanced survey activities and...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic began this spring, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) called on all health care providers to activate infection control practices to help limit the spread of the virus....more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on July 14, 2020 that it is distributing rapid point-of-care diagnostic test instruments and tests to all 15,400 nursing homes throughout the country to...more
On May 15, 2020 the Elder Justice Coordinator for the Federal Trade Commission warned nursing homes and assisted living facilities not to request that Medicaid residents sign over their CARES Act stimulus checks. The FTC...more