7/22/2025 10:24:29 PM Recent Legislative and Regulatory Updates for Long-Term Care Facilities By Carol Loepere Craig Anderson Sebnem Dugmeoglu Recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the passage of the 2025 Reconciliation Law...
7/6/2025 2:30:16 AM Senate Version of Reconciliation Bill Becomes Law By Matthew Loughran On July 4, President Trump got his wish and was able to hold a signing ceremony for the Reconciliation Bill that put into effect many of...
5/23/2025 7:47:57 PM Breaking down the Health Care Impacts of the One Big [Reconciliation] Bill By Scot T. Hasselman Carol Loepere Matthew Loughran After 28 hours of deliberation including a marathon Rules Committee meeting that saw more than 500 proposed Democratic amendments, the...
12/18/2024 4:03:43 PM OIG Issues Voluntary Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facilities By Sonia Nguyen Allie Klimkiewicz A year after issuing its General Compliance Program Guidance, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General...
5/10/2024 2:39:17 PM What to know about the new CMS Minimum Staffing Rule for LTC Facilities By Carol Loepere Hatmaker Pawlitz David Bender Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally published the minimum staffing rule for Long Term Care facilities in the...
11/17/2023 1:26:51 PM CMS Finalizes Nursing Home Ownership Rule By Carol Loepere Whitney Petrie Matthew Loughran The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published its final rule that requires nursing homes enrolled in Medicare and...
2/24/2023 2:38:41 AM CMS Wants to Know Who Owns Nursing Facilities By Whitney Petrie Matthew Loughran Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule on February 15, 2023 that would require Medicare-enrolled...
6/16/2021 9:29:02 PM Important updates to provider relief fund reporting requirements By Craig Anderson On June 11, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that it had released revised reporting requirements for...
4/29/2021 2:30:28 PM CMS acknowledges improvement in nursing home COVID-19 response, eliminates certain blanket waivers By James Hennessy Kelly Kearney Sonia Nguyen The 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic (“COVID-19”) introduced several unfamiliar hardships adversely impacting the long-term care industry,...
4/23/2021 6:41:43 PM Recent budget reforms to impact New York’s nursing homes By Alfred Kyle Joseph Marger On April 19th, 2021 Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) signed the state’s Budget for Health and Mental Hygiene (A3007C/S2507C), which includes...
8/31/2020 5:26:40 PM CMS unveils additional COVID-19 LTC facility testing and reporting rules during public health emergency By James Hennessy Shaylynn Veeder On August 27, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) filed an interim final rule with comment period (“IFC”),...
6/5/2020 6:54:22 PM CMS announces increased penalties and oversight for states and nursing homes during COVID-19 emergency By James Hennessy Taylor Grant On June 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled new measures designed to enhance enforcement and oversight...
5/20/2020 9:44:49 PM Nursing homes face increased scrutiny by attorneys general during COVID-19 By Divonne Smoyer Paul W. Connell Christine Cogbill Noonan Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on May 12, 2020, that his office is investigating several nursing homes in the...
5/20/2020 5:22:14 PM CMS issues nursing home reopening recommendations for state and local officials By Megan Engel Jessica Christensen With portions of the country beginning to reopen, on May 18, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its...