The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 2 repealed the minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid that the agency adopted in 2024.

"Safe, high-quality care is essential, but rigid, one-size-fits-all mandates fail patients," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Despite an underwhelming 2.8% Medicare Part A proposed pay raise, nursing home advocates found reason to be encouraged on several other fronts after the fiscal 2026 SNF PPS rule was released late ...

HHS repealed the rule on Tuesday, which would have required nursing homes to increase staffing, saying the regulations would ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the federal agency charged with enforcing nursing home regulations. (Photo by Getty Images; logo courtesy of CMS) With a Texas court striking down ...

About 5% of Americans require skilled care at some point as they age. The horrific reports of more than 200,000 deaths of nursing home residents and staff during the Covid-19 pandemic put the nursing ...

Skilled nursing leaders are renewing calls to eliminate the three-day stay rule in light of a policy change that the Centers ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced that it will audit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) nursing home survey practices.

Key congressional Republicans signaled opposition on Wednesday to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan to impose staffing minimums on nursing homes.. Last month, CMS issued a proposed ...