CMS: New RAI manual still on hold
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not release an updated version of the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual in the near future, the agency confirmed Thursday.
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Proposed 9% cut to therapy ‘potentially devastating’
A proposal to cut 9% from Medicare payments for physical and occupational therapy under the federal government’s Proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule for 2021 could potentially have a “devastating impact” on providers if it goes into effect as presented, advocates warned Tuesday.
Nursing homes accused of mismanaging pandemic relief funds
For-profit nursing home operators that have previously settled Medicare fraud allegations are now under suspicion of misusing federal pandemic relief funding.
Feds’ proposal to extend COVID-19 waivers would keep some telehealth expansions but could deliver rehab ‘double-whammy’
As expected and hoped for by many healthcare providers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Monday proposed permanently adopting some telehealth and therapy coverage expansions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2.2% Medicare raise slated for nursing homes
Nursing home operators will receive an aggregate $750 million Medicare pay increase for fiscal year 2021 under a final rule announced Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It would amount to a 2.2% net increase starting Oct. 1, 2020, when fiscal year 2021 begins.
1 million POC tests delivered to nursing homes
The federal government delivered about 1 million point-of-care tests to nursing homes last week, according to a leading health official.
BREAKING: Nursing homes to receive 2.2% Medicare pay raise for 2021
Nursing homes will receive a Medicare pay boost for fiscal 2021, federal officials announced today.
Not so fast: Providers must check to make sure their state permits POC COVID-19 testing devices, guidance cautions
As nursing homes wait for point-of care testing instruments and supplies to arrive from the federal government, they first should make sure they are complying with state public health guidelines regarding the devices.
Proposal would require HHS to create nursing home strike teams for infection control
The Department of Health and Human Services would have to develop strike teams that would help nursing homes test residents for COVID-19 and assist with infection control practices under the GOP’s newly unveiled $1 trillion coronavirus relief package.
CMS violated federal contracting rules, OIG report finds
An investigation by a federal watchdog agency found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services violated federal contracting rules by allowing contractors to perform government functions.
