CMS submits 75,000 pages to federal court to justify nursing home staffing mandate
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 15, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services filed more than 75,000 pages of rule-making records with a federal court Friday, beginning its formal defense of its controversial nursing home staffing mandate.
LTC advocates push feds to get creative on pay for physicians, therapists left out of incentives
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 11, 2024
A federal proposal to cut a key factor used to calculate physician pay is especially troubling to some professionals who support skilled nursing facilities because they’re left out of key pay incentives.
PruittHealth CEO named Quality Champion for 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 28, 2024
Neil Pruitt Jr., a second-generation nursing home owner who greatly expanded the chain bearing his name while remaining focused on resident outcomes, has been named winner of the sector’s highest individual...
AHCA, HHS seek quick timeline in federal staffing mandate case
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 13, 2024
The American Health Care Association, LeadingAge and four other parties in a federal lawsuit challenging the federal nursing home staffing mandate have told the case’s judge they expect a decision to...
After ‘offensive’ attack, Parkinson and Sloan push lawmakers for solutions, not shame
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 09, 2024
The two largest organizations representing US nursing homes this week fired back against a pair of influential lawmakers who have tried to paint industry efforts to stop a minimum staffing rule as motivated...
BREAKING: AHCA files lawsuit to dismiss nursing home staffing rule
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 24, 2024
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to throw out the national nursing home staffing mandate, charging that it exceeds the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and that it “creates...