CMS now offering cognitive, mood assessment training for SNF providers
By
Alicia Lasek
May 10, 2021
The training includes four virtual, on-demand courses that give providers an overview of key clinical considerations for performing these assessments in the nursing home setting, the agency announced.
CMS tells hospitals to fix discharge practices
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 10, 2023
Hospitals’ shortcomings in providing post-acute care providers with adequate discharge information prompted federal regulators to issue a special memo the first week of June.
LTC staff to receive free behavioral health training in new federal program
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
May 17, 2022
The new $15 million program will focus on workforce skills in an effort to strengthen behavioral healthcare delivery in long-term care facilities, HHS announced Monday.
CMS gives its nursing home info a new online hub
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 02, 2020
Nursing home providers now have a one-stop source to find all of the latest information from the federal government on guidance and resources available to them.
CMS updates kidney dialysis standards
Apr 07, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a new rule governing health assessment, patient outcomes and physician practices at kidney dialysis centers around the country.
OIG: Assisted living needs to up information, compliance levels on HCBS
Dec 13, 2012
Concerns about home- and community-based services (HCBS) at assisted living facilities were raised in a report released Tuesday by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
CMS is two weeks late issuing report on fraud prevention efforts
By
McKnight's Staff
Oct 17, 2012
Two Republican Senators want to know why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is two weeks overdue in issuing a report on the agency’s fraud prevention system (FPS).
Healthcare reform can improve care and reduce costs for ‘dual-eligibles’
Dec 20, 2010
Implementation of the healthcare reform bill, or the Affordable Care Act, could improve the quality of care and reduce costs for “dual-eligibles,” according to findings of a new report from...
CMS overpays poor performing nursing homes by $5 million in 2004
May 06, 2008
Nursing homes that fell out of compliance with federal quality-of-care standards in 2004 received more than $5 million in overpayments that year, as a result of processing errors, the Department of Health...
Influential senator, colleagues pressure CMS on nursing home ownership info
By
Jessica R. Towhey
May 23, 2023
A small group of Democrats have joined with US Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to turn up the bipartisan heat on federal regulators as they weigh increasing transparency into nursing homes’ ownership structures.