The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ decision to hold off adjusting Patient Driven Payment Model payment rates could be the agency’s way of “playing their cards close to their chest” as it waits to see COVID-19’s full impact on skilled nursing facilities, according to one expert.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is no longer issuing fines to nursing homes solely on a per-instance basis, reversing 2017 guidance issued under the Trump administration.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced late Thursday that it will delay adjusting Patient Driven Payment Model payment rates until next year. The agency also will give nursing homes just a 1.2% pay raise for fiscal 2022.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced late Thursday that it will delay adjustments to nursing homes’ Patient Driven Payment System pay rates until next year. It also will be giving providers just a 1.2% pay raise for fiscal 2022.
The ongoing Public Health Emergency extends CMS waivers related to hiring, admissions and assessment practices. But as the agency has already shown, it has the authority to revoke those Section 1135 waivers before the emergency officially ends.
During the height of the pandemic, annual surveys of skilled nursing facilities understandably skidded to a stop. Flash forward to August 2020, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directed state survey agencies to begin conducting standard surveys again. But while infection control surveys were common and plentiful during the last year and a…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is facing pressure to publicize nursing home COVID-19 vaccination data in a more consumer-friendly manner.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is being urged to adopt an updated life safety code regulation after providers warned the edition slated to go into effect could cause “unnecessary nursing home resident disruptions and relocations” due to its inconsistencies and restrictions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services pleasantly surprised long-term care therapy providers with several parts of the new 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule that it released Tuesday.
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