On May 24, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan announced that LeadingAge intends to file to join the American Health Care Association lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS).
“We are in full agreement with the arguments made in the lawsuit. Mandates, as we’ve said repeatedly to Congress, to the Biden Administration, and to HHS, are not the right approach to achieving the shared goal of ensuring older adults’ and families’ access to quality long-term care. They will without question impact our nonprofit, mission-driven nursing homes’ ability to provide care and services,” Ms. Smith Sloan said.
“LeadingAge remains committed to using every tool available to us–legislative, legal, and regulatory–to both address the fundamental issue of building the long-term care workforce and halt implementation of CMS’s final staffing rule.”
