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OIG to study Medicaid supplemental payments for nursing homes … Pilot program leads to 42% reduction in resident falls … State offers nursing homes $7M to expand use of telehealth, tech innovations...

BALTIMORE — One of the newest nursing home division staff members at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offered up her best Notradamus impression for providers here Wednesday. No, Lenise Cummings-Vaughn,...

CMS rates didn’t adequately cover COVID lab costs: OIG … Change hackers claim they also took CVS, Medicare data in cyberattack … Kansas City nursing home closed following attorney general complaint...

BALTIMORE — Quality experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be taking a closer look at sepsis rates in nursing homes while continuing broader efforts to improve infection control,...

Nursing homes most often initiated a discharge because a resident’s behavior endangered the resident or others in the facility, a rationale fully within their rights, a government watchdog reported Wednesday.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services remains acutely focused on patient harm and will introduce new measures addressing patient safety later this year, agency leaders said at an event in Baltimore...

Mental health visits for assisted living residents with dementia dropped as the pandemic set in, a new study finds.

Measles outbreaks have drawn headlines in recent weeks as the number of cases and outbreaks in more than a dozen US states is already the highest since 2019. The highly infectious disease poses multiple...

People under the age of 55 are more likely to experience accelerated aging, and that’s linked to more early-onset solid tumors, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer...

Tragicomically, CMS asserts “this final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities[.]”