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...
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...
10/7/2024 1:01:26 AM CMS Ramps up Process for Identifying Private-Equity Ownership of SNFs By Carol Loepere Brittney Cafero Matthew Loughran This month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun an off-cycle revalidation process directed at all...
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...
3/8/2024 1:00:00 PM Antitrust and Health Care Fraud Enforcers Launch Inquiry into Private Equity Ownership in Health Care By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Michelle Mantine The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
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...
6/1/2020 7:08:10 PM OIG releases strategic plan for oversight of COVID-19 response By Vicki Tankle Following the distribution of billions of relief aid to healthcare providers and amidst the guidance issued around reopening of nursing...
3/23/2020 8:41:21 PM HHS waives requirements for health care providers under section 1135 in response to COVID-19 By Carol Loepere Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Rebecca Dittrich Arielle Lusardi Shaylynn Veeder Kristin Parker +4 more... Show less Shortly after President Trump declared a national emergency related to COVID-19, CMS issued blanket waivers under section 1135 of the...