Skilled Nursing Facility Healthcare-Associated Infections Measure
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Acumen to develop a claims-based quality measure of...
CMS Receives Final Coronavirus Commission Report on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) received the final report from the independent Coronavirus Commission on Safety...
CMS Seeks Comment on SNF Healthcare-Associated Infections Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) is seeking input...
CMS issues Bulletin on Medicaid Reimbursement for Strategies to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 in...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an informational bulletin to states regarding flexibilities available to enhance...
Creating an Effective Hospice Plan of Care
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Learning Network (MLN) has published a Fact Sheet on Creating...
CMS releases Long Term Care Facility COVID-19 Testing Requirements
On August 25 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule related to additional...
LeadingAge Offers Free QuickCast on Advance Care Planning
Do your loved ones understand your wishes if you are unable to speak for yourself? Advance care plans can...
Hospice National Data Set Survey
The National Data Set (NDS) represents a comprehensive compilation of often hard to find and timely data points on...
SNF Provider Preview Reports – Now Available
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. Providers have until August 30, 2020...
Requiring Nursing Homes to Submit Staffing Data
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a memorandum announcing plans to end the emergency blanket waiver...
