The White House on Monday, April 22, announced that the nursing home minimum-staffing rule has been finalized. Effectively, the rule requires all nursing homes that receive Medicar
If the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed 2025 hospice rule is finalized as written, hospices may encounter some hurdles in implementing some of the new
The draft version of the OASIS-E1 Instrument, which will go into effect on January 1, 2025, is now available. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted t
While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the
Hospice providers will be looking to Congress in 2024 to address issues related to program integrity, quality improvement, and industry-wide workforce pressures. As legislative eff
Program integrity issues that have heated up in the hospice space during the past five years reached a boiling point in 2023. Hospice providers have seen an array of increased regu
