Top law officers from 18 states added their voices to a White House proposal to increase public reporting of nursing home ownership and related party information.
The current reporting system “hampers law enforcement efforts to address substandard care,” said the diverse attorneys general group in a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.
Meanwhile, a CMS official said during a stakeholder call that the group was eager to start leveraging data that would be collected under the proposed rule that elicited the AGs’ comments.
The issuance of a final rule was imminent as of press time.
As proposed in February, the rule would define private equity and real estate investment trusts, which regulators said would set the stage for the disclosure of whether those types of owners or investors play a role in a specific nursing home.
