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Considering the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's Impact on Skilled Nursing Facilities

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As legal counsel to skilled nursing facility (SNF) owners and operators, as well as their lenders, Holland & Knight's Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Team is closely monitoring potential impacts of President Donald Trump's One...more

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HHS OIG’s Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance

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In November 2024, the Office of Inspector General at Health and Human Services released its Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance. The document is part of an effort to modernize how HHS OIG...more

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Minimum Staffing Rules for Long-Term Care Facilities Tossed Out by Federal Courts and Budget Bill: Key Points for Medicare and...

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A federal judge in Iowa recently struck down key parts of a Biden-era final rule that set new minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities as a condition of participation in Medicare or Medicaid programs. The June...more

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CMS Announces Care Compare Changes That Could Lead to Major Five-Star Impacts for Certain SNFs

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On June 18, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published new guidance announcing a major change to the way Care Compare will display survey information and the methodology for calculating the health inspection score...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Federal Ruling on CMS Staffing Mandate Offers Relief for Long-Term Care Facilities

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Long-term care facilities, embattled by rising costs and potential Medicaid cuts, are seeing some relief on the horizon following a recent federal court ruling that struck down portions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Were All Those Nurse Staffing Seminars for Naught?

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The contentious Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule (Rule), which established minimum staffing requirements for federally funded long-term care facilities (LTC) such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for Medicare and...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

SNF Off-Cycle CMS-855A Reporting Delayed to August 1, 2025

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Mandatory Medicare reporting for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) has been delayed to August 1, 2025, to the relief of many in the industry. As a reminder, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) required the...more

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Client Alert: Court Strikes Down Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

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In a major victory for nursing homes and long-term care industry advocates, on Monday, April 7, 2025, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the US District Court for Northern Texas struck down a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more

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Client Alert: CMS Again Delays Updates to its Guidance to Surveyors for Long Term Care Facilities Under Appendix PP of the State...

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On March 10, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced a further delay in the implementation of proposed updates to its Guidance to Surveyors for Long-Term Care Facilities under Appendix PP of the...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

CMS Cracks Down on Responsible Party Liability in LTC Admission Agreements

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A nursing facility that participates in the Medicaid or Medicare programs may not require a third party to guarantee payment for a resident’s admission or continued stay. However, facilities are allowed to require a resident...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Nursing Home Update

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The federal government has made a variety of changes to federal requirements aimed at improving the quality of care at long-term care facilities across the country. In May 2024, the United States Department of Health and...more

Baker Donelson

Enhancing Compliance in Nursing Facilities: OIG's New Guidance

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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new Nursing Facility Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (Nursing Facility ICPG) for nursing facilities...more

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Key Takeaways from the OIG’s New Compliance Program Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities

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As part of its Modernization Initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published its first industry-segment specific Compliance Program Guidance, which focuses on...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Attention SNFs: Enhanced 855A Disclosure Requirements Have Arrived

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Against the backdrop of increasing regulatory scrutiny of private equity ownership in the healthcare space, Medicare skilled nursing and Medicaid nursing facilities (“SNF”) and private equity companies looking to acquire SNFs...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

States, Interest Groups Launch Fresh Attack Against Federal Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule in New Litigation

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The Biden administration’s controversial Final Rule establishing minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes is under new attack. The Final Rule, long decried by nursing home industry leaders as a one-size-fits-all...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Finalizes FY 2025 Payment Rules for Inpatient Hospitals, Inpatient Rehab Facilities, Inpatient...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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When a Gift Becomes a Kickback: Gifts from Florida Pharmacies to Long-Term Care Facilities

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The Florida Board of Pharmacy permits pharmacies serving residents and patients at long-term care facilities (nursing homes, ALFs, homes for DD residents, etc.) as either Special Closed System Pharmacies or Community...more

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CMS Issues Final Rule Mandating New Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities

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On April 22, 2024, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency...more

Maynard Nexsen

Federal Long Term Care Staffing Mandates:  Impacts on Facilities Across the Country and in Alabama

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On May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its controversial final rule imposing minimum staffing requirements for long term care facilities (the “Final Rule”). When it takes effect on June...more

Epstein Becker & Green

CMS Finalizes Rule Establishing Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities

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On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CMS Final Rule Cranks Up Staffing Requirements at Long-Term Care Facilities

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A final federal rule raising minimum staffing requirements for long-term care (LTC) facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding becomes effective June 21, starting a staggered timeline for LTCs to create and...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Releases IPPS Proposed Rule; Congress Holds Hearings on Chronic Care and Telehealth

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Morgan Lewis

CMS Rule Targeting Private Equity and REIT Ownership of Nursing Facilities Now in Effect

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Effective January 16, 2024, a new rule promulgated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will significantly expand disclosure requirements for skilled nursing facilities participating in Medicare (SNFs) and...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New HHS Rule for Nursing Home Ownership and Manager Disclosure

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A new rule will require nursing homes enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid to make disclosures about certain facility ownership, management and other operational information. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more

Jones Day

Health Care Provider Bankruptcy Update: Patient Care Ombudsman Not Necessary in Every Health Care Business Bankruptcy Case

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Recent headlines have starkly illuminated the headwinds facing health care providers struggling to recover from a host of financial pressures. Many providers have resorted to filing for bankruptcy protection as a way, among...more

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