Introduction This is the first major change to the requirements for long-term care facilities’ participation in Medicare and Medicaid involving staffing and facility assessments in more than eight years. In the preamble to the rule, CMS itself acknowledges that the changes in the rule ...
reflecting a 3.0 percent projected hospital market basket percentage increase, reduced by 0.4 percent for the productivity adjustment. This increase is 0.5 percent lower than the 3.1 percent increase implemented in the CY 2024 Final Rule. CMS aligned the...
CMS released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule.
The proposed rule includes a number of technical revisions to the regulations implementing the Stark law. These revisions appear to be designed to provide clarity and flexibility regarding the burden of technical requirements, including written agreements, extended holdover provisions, new time share leas...
The interim final rule—“Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency”—is aimed at assisting providers in responding to the current PHE as well as future disasters by making permanent regulatory changes with time limit...
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(LTC) facilities across the country. CMS set these standards through a landmark final rule aimed at bolstering nurse staffing in these facilities. Part of a larger focus by the Biden administration to improve quality and safety in nursing homes, the May 2024 rule specifies quantifiable, ...
Have an overall minimum standard of 3.48 total nurse staff HPRD, which must include a minimum of 0.55 hours by RNs and 2.45 hours by NAs (42 C.F.R. § 483.35(b)(1)(i) and (ii)) Implementation and broad provisions of the rule ...
The final rule is part of the administration’s focus on nursing home reform and comes a year after President Biden issuedExecutive Order No. 14095requiring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider actions that would reduce staffing turnover, which is asso...