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
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 ...
Attorneys General from 20 states asked a federal judge to grant a temporary injunction halting implementation of changes to new rules affecting minimum nursing home staffing requirements announced by the Centers for Medicare...more Medicare’s 60-Day Rule ...
“The Final Rule thus promises to be a nightmare not only for owners and operators of nursing homes, but also for the vulnerable residents they serve, in direct derogation of CMS’s statutory mandate,” according to the complaint,filed in the Northern District of Texas. In addition to CMS, ...
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 ...
Low staffing; Designation of the facility as a Special Focus Facility per Section 1819(f)(8)(B) of the Social Security Act; Concerns related to conducting outbreak testing per CMS requirements; or Allegations or complaints which pose a risk for harm or Immedia...
Starting in 2015, changes will be made to the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System to help improve consumer information about the quality of individualnursing homes. These improvements will include nationwide focused survey inspections to enable better verification of both the staffing and quali...
In this rule, CMS is temporarily waiving, for the duration of the emergency, three of those requirements, whenever they appear in an NCD or LCD: Face-to-face and in-person requirements: Any face-to-face or in-person encounter for evaluations, assessments, certifications or other impl...
for COVID-19 to reflect these new reporting requirements—the new tools are available in the newCMS guidanceand in the COVID-19 Focused Survey subfolder on the CMS Nursing Homes website. The guidance directs surveyors to begin using these revised docume...
Medicare still requires hospitals to comply with important rules including requirements around providing 24-hour nursing care and discharge to a “safe environment.” The applicability of certain CoPs may depend on the nature of the services to be provided in patients’ homes, and a hospital may ...