Pharmacy Partnership for Long-term Care Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is partnering with pharmacies to offer on-site COVID-19 vaccination services for...
Post-Acute Care Quality Reporting Programs Tip Sheets
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Hospice, Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Inpatient...
SNF Healthcare-Associated Infections Dry Run Reports
As reported last week in the SDAHO article titled Skilled Nursing Facility Healthcare-Associated Infections Measure​, the Centers for Medicare and...
New Guidance for Nursing Home Visitation
On Thursday, September 17 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released new visitation guidance for nursing homes....
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...
