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CMS unveils managed care rule, refutes nursing home rule complaints

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S | CMS defended implementing stronger rules over nursing home staffing as well as explained its thoughts behind Medicaid access and managed care rules.

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OIG Reveals Nursing Homes Challenged with Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness Regulations

Hall Render

Department of Health and Human Services found that most skilled nursing facilities (“nursing homes”) in Massachusetts that it surveyed are not correctly complying with life safety requirements or emergency preparedness requirements. The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S.

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Nursing Home Update: Upholding Resident Voting Rights

Hall Render

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is reinforcing regulatory expectations regarding nursing home residents’ rights to vote. On September 26, 2024, CMS issued a QSO Memo , “Compliance with Residents’ Rights requirement related to Nursing Home Residents’ Right to Vote.” 42 CFR §483.10(b)(1)

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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a much anticipated and contested proposed rule that seeks to establish minimum staffing level requirements for nursing homes. hours of nursing staff per resident per day, or 3.0 HPRD from nurse aids (NAs). [2]

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How Can Nursing Homes’ Data Problem Be Solved?

HIT Consultant

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group Nursing homes have embraced technology, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help seniors, staff, and clinicians better communicate with one another and for residents to stay in touch with loved ones. Nursing homes are evolving. percent of U.S.

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

My commitment to this work has led me to build innovative programs both in the community and in skilled nursing facilities, designed to provide more and better-focused care to our frail elderly. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data 1 , the number of workers employed at nursing care facilities nationwide has declined by 15%—from 1.59

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CMS finalizes rule requiring greater transparency for nursing home ownership

Fierce Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership.