CMS Awarded New Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced its new Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors. Three contractors will perform post-payment review of Part A and...
AHRQ helps nursing homes tackle antimicrobial stewardship
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has created an Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harms...
Moratorium legislative committee moving forward on 5 bills
The Regulation on Nursing and Assisted Living Beds Study moved forward on five bills for introduction to the full legislature during the interim committee's...
CMS offering training for Phase 1 Implementation of new nursing home regulations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is developing online training for Regional Offices (RO), State Survey Agencies (SA) providers and other stakeholders...
SDAHO SNF VBP analysis available
The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Analysis is intended to provide member SNFs with a preview of the federal fiscal year (FFY)...
LeadingAge offering seminar on CMS Requirements of Participation
LeadingAge experts are offering an overview of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) final rule revising the current Requirements of Participation for nursing...
Nursing home administrators asked to complete Medicaid payment methodologies survey
The Legislative Summer Study Committee reviewing Medicaid payment methodologies is asking that the South Dakota Department of Social Services (SD DSS) analyze changes to...
More than 178 sessions to be offered at 4-day LeadingAge conference
LeadingAge will hold its Annual Meeting and EXPO in Indianapolis Oct. 30-Nov. 2. The annual meeting provides an opportunity to explore the breadth and...
Program offers reduced telecommunications, broadband rates for nursing facilities
Nursing facilities are eligible for reduced rates for telecommunications and broadband access through a new federal program.
The Rural Healthcare Connectivity (Act) was passed by...
OIG issues report on election statements, terminal illness certifications
The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) has released a report calling on hospices to improve their election statements...
