Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that establishes minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes, aimed at ensuring safe and high-quality care for residents.Harris, EmilyJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
CMS Administrator Seema Verma warned in an op-ed earlier this month that nursing homes restricting visitors without a reasonable health or safety reason will face citations, after the agency issued guidance telling nursing homes to again allow visitation . Beneficiary advocates applaud the move. In ...
In May 2020, the agency created arequirement for nursing homes to report resident and staff infections and deaths related to COVID-19. This provision was initially set to end with the PHE, but CMS extended the requirement in the 2023 Home Health rule to December 2024. Addition...
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Importantly, the revised memorandum also states that beginning October 1, 2020, states must perform annual stand-alone FIC surveys for at least twenty percent (20%) of nursing homes. Facilities that meet the triggering criteria will count toward the 20% requiremen...
The CMS final rule that establishes the minimum staffing levels at nursing homes CMS’s calculations of Medicare DSH payments Medicare pay reductions arising from the Home Health Patient-Driven Groupings Model TheLoperdecision has several important implications in the context of...
Baker Donelson is assisting nursing homes in implementing the rule correctly and as efficiently as possible. For specific guidance or more information on this alert, please contact Stefanie Doyle, Caldwell Collins, or any member of Baker Donelson's Long Term...
The findings were also consistent with AHCA/NCAL’s own research, which analyzed recent CMS data on COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes. “What we need – now more than ever – is for our government leaders and lab companies from the private sector to work together t...
staffing requirements at nursing homes, at one point trying to reverse this rule in aspending billdue this week. Democrats say the requirements are necessary to ensure quality of care, while critics and industry interests say the mandate is unrealistic and will push nursing homes out of business...
Deadline Quickly Approaching for NY Nursing Homes and Owners/Operators Regarding CMS Star-Rating Postings Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLPon12/20/2024 Effective as of December 26, 2024, each nursing home facility (“Facility”) in New York State will be required to post its overall Centers...