The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its nursing home staffing campaign to support compliance with the nursing home staffing minimum rule. The support includes new websites designed to facilitate recruitment and education for new nurses.
The websites aren't a provision of the staffing mandate but an additional...
A coalition of 20 Republican-led states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration's nursing home minimum staffing mandate, but the rule could end up saving thousands of lives each year once implemented.
The lawsuit was led by the attorneys general of Iowa, South Carolina and Kansas, and filed in the District Court for the...
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the proposed rule for nursing home federal staffing minimums and guidelines. The proposed rule was rebuffed by the nursing home industry and related stakeholders, as the nursing home workforce is already depleted due to the pandemic exacerbating an already...
It looks like the Biden administration will fall short on its promise to institute federal staffing minimums for nursing homes after a new study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) commissioned to determine the appropriate level of staffing made no recommendations.
Instead, the study said, there were no staffing...
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed the FY 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Payment Prospective Systems (PPS) rates. It includes an increase of 3.7%, or $1.2 billion in Medicare Part A payments to SNFs.
The rate increase reflects a 6.1% market basket update to the payment rates comprised of a...
Nursing homes continue to experience the worst job loss of any other healthcare sector according to new analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), but Congress is cautioning against the use of skilled nursing facility (SNF) staffing minimums planned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Also, CMS is working to...
