Docs, therapists to see pay cut but caregivers score in ’25 physician pay rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2024
Doctors, therapists and others billing under the physician fee schedule would see an average 2.93% reduction in Medicare pay next year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed Wednesday.
Lawmakers say CMS should ban Medicare Advantage’s use of AI to deny care
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 26, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should consider banning artificial intelligence from being used to deny Medicare Advantage coverage pending a “systematic review,” a group of 49 congressional...
BREAKING: Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could defang CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 28, 2024
The Supreme Court this morning threw out a long-standing doctrine that has given regulatory agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, broad discretion to set rules for the entities...
CMS sends update on $75M nursing home recruitment campaign, but providers’ concerns linger
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 13, 2024
CMS’ admitted lack of a plan thus far for the $75 million it intends to use to spur development of more nursing home workers is further puncturing providers’ hopes for helpful change.
Staffing rule financial penalties could be ‘existential’ crisis for nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a laundry list of possible enforcement actions for nursing homes that fail to meet new staffing requirements, providers can only wonder...
Providers decry major ‘crack down’ without major funding
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Danielle Brown
Mar 01, 2022
A historic slate of reforms that would set federal staffing standards and ratchet up penalties at poor-performing facilities — but not pay more for on-site upgrades — was widely criticized by providers...
CMS suspends surveys, allows providers to exceed bed capacity in states hit by Hurricane Harvey
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Sep 06, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is extending some flexibilities for Medicare providers in Texas and Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Administrator Seema Verma said on Saturday.
BREAKING: CMS reveals more nursing home ownership information
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Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Sep 26, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today made more nursing home ownership data available as part of the White House’s push to increase transparency in the sector.
CMS: First reforms will address ownership accountability, worst performing facilities
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Danielle Brown
Mar 11, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is on a “full court sprint” toward issuing new guidance and regulations to go with President Biden’s plans for nursing home reform, officials said Thursday.
CMS provides first look at shorter, Risk-Based Survey process
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday revealed initial information about a potential “Risk-Based Survey” option that could be available to some of the nation’s best performing...