Tragicomically, CMS asserts “this final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities[.]”
State News – October 2023
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
Gov. Tim Walz (D) (pictured) took a budget victory lap at a nursing home late this summer, allowing the operator to ask for continued and more robust support for the sector.
Law eliminates staffing ‘hostage situations’ for state’s nursing homes
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 17, 2023
The “hostage situations” where nursing homes learn at the last minute that a staffing agency has double-booked a worker are nearing an end in New Hampshire.
CMS should bring its oversight hammer down . . . on states
By
Brendan Williams
Oct 17, 2022
CMS has an absolute hammer when it comes to accepting, or rejecting, state Medicaid rates that it finds fail to substantially comply with federal law,
The anti-vaccine victory tour of 2021
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2021
When news broke this week regarding the first injunction against the federal vaccine requirement for healthcare workers, I’ll admit I was surprised that a court found enough merit in the challenging...
Stress? Resolve? Hope? You can feel it in their voices
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 15, 2021
Today, for the first time at mcknights.com, you can read about and HEAR about agency staffing and other key issues straight from providers’ mics.
States threaten Medicaid cuts as providers plead for the opposite
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 29, 2021
Medicaid reimbursements for Florida nursing homes would drop nearly $81 million next fiscal year in a new budget proposal, pitting state lawmakers against providers in a battle likely to take place in...
NH provider regrets not having state review its vaccine distribution plan
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 15, 2021
The leader of a New Hampshire nursing home said it regrets not having its COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan reviewed by state health officials before providing doses to some of the facility’s volunteer...
Nursing Home Quality Incentive Program? Hardly
By
Brendan Williams
Dec 08, 2020
Was any federal program ever more misnamed than the “Nursing Home Quality Incentive Program”? Rather than reward nursing home quality, it has effectively rewarded states that have out-of-control COVID-19...
Lawmakers want upcoming COVID-19 relief funds to prioritize nursing homes in states with high shares...
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 20, 2020
Several Democratic lawmakers are suggesting that long-term care facilities in areas that have higher shares of COVID-19 deaths and cases should be first in line to receive future federal relief funding.