Devastating and Crippling: CMS Receives Thousands of Comments, Nursing Home Operators Push Back on Medicare Cut

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needs to seriously consider what a reduction in skilled nursing reimbursement could mean for facilities that are already barely hanging on. At least that’s what providers have indicated in published comments submitted to the agency over the last month and a half. In total, CMS received approximately […]

Proposed Nursing Home Staffing Standards ‘Unattainable’ Amid Labor Crisis

Despite continuing nursing home workforce shortages across the country, some states continue to push for mandated minimum staffing hours – Virginia’s legislature was the latest to introduce such proposals, in January. The bills were heard by the state House Tuesday night and carried over for the year, meaning they are effectively dead for this year’s […]