The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services kept a pre-New Year’s resolution by releasing a second draft of the new MDS tool that will be used to assess residents starting Oct. 1, 2023. The agency ...

In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started focused on-site surveys to address the issue of erroneous coding of schizophrenia in nursing homes. More recently, the agency began ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued the final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is considering expanding the national coverage determination for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants using bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell ...

As of October 2025, CMS has officially removed Section R from the Minimum Data Set (MDS), eliminating four items related to ...

Durable medical equipment (DME) such as CPAP machines and hospital beds helps keep many patients out of expensive nursing home care and in their own homes. Unfortunately, creating the right payment ...

In the present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) providing long-term and post-acute care have been a focus of new infections and fatal illness outcomes. Decisions about health ...