Nursing home minimum staffing standards promote resident care and safety  Medicaid and CHIP to have historic access standards, advance fair compensation for direct care workers ..read more

On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) affirmed its commitment to hold nursing homes accountable for providing safe and high-quality care for the nearly 1.2 million residents living in Medicare- and Medicaid-certified long-term care facilities by issuing the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting final rule.  ..read more

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency. CMS Releases Medicaid School-Based Services Technical Assistance Center FAQs ..read more

On April 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital prospective payment system (LTCH PPS) proposed rule.  ..read more

New Mandatory Model Proposed to Improve Health Outcomes Post-Surgery and Advance Climate Resiliency  ..read more

Final Rule Promotes Healthy Competition, Increases Access to Care, and Protects Enrollees from Harmful Marketing and Prior Authorization ..read more

On March 28, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (CMS-1810-P) that    would update Medicare hospice payments and the aggregate cap amount for fiscal year (FY) 2025 in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. This rule also proposes to adopt the most recent Office of Management and Budget (OMB) statistical area delineations, which would change the hospice wage index, and proposes to clarify current policy related to the hospice “election statement” and the “notice of election” (NOE), as well as adding clarifyi ..read more

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