CMS Releases Hospice Rule with 2.8% Update
Wage Index Proposed Rule. The rule contains a positive update for hospices, two requests for information, multiple updates on the Hospice Quality Reporting Program, some proposed revisions to telehealth regulations and much more! LeadingAge...
Expired COVID-19 Test Kit Update
LeadingAge has been working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to supply LeadingAge providers free COVID-19 test kits. In the last test kit order placed, some providers received test kits...
Final MA Rates for CY2024 Will increase 3.32%
CMS issued its final CY2024 rate notice for Medicare Advantage plans. In addition to changes about how MA plans are paid, the notice also includes changes that reduce out of pocket costs for Part...
Correction: Last Day to Submit MDS Through QIES is April 13th
For several weeks, we have provided updates and reminders about the upcoming transition of the MDS to iQIES with the accompanying submission black-out from April 13th-17th. On April 3rd, we erroneously reported that this...
CMS Releases CAHPS Hospice Survey Fact Sheet
CMS released a fact sheet that summarizes CAHPS data refreshes on Care Compare. This resource walks through the five-star rating scores and refresh data collection time points. This clarifies when CAHPS Star Ratings are...
OIG Initiating Nursing Home Medicaid Audits
The Office of the Inspector General is conducting audits of nursing home Medicaid spending seeking to determine how much of Medicaid nursing home payments are spent on direct patient care. We do not know...
Advisory Committee Recommends PACE Expansion to HHS Secretary
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services (the committee) released their policy brief and recommendations, today. The committee is an independent advisory group within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)...
LeadingAge Responds to DEA Proposed Rule on Telehealth Prescribing of Scheduled Drugs
LeadingAge submitted comments on a proposed rule from the Drug Enforcement Administration that would alter when a prescribing clinician could use telemedicine to prescribe scheduled substances. LeadingAge specifically pushed to have hospice, palliative and...
CMS Clarifies in Writing that the End of the National Emergency and the Public...
On March 31st, CMS published an explanation of the “Potential Impact of House Joint Resolution 7,” to answer questions related to the difference between this resolution to end the National Emergency differs from the...
MA PHE Accommodations to End May 11th
Medicare Advantage organizations benefitted from temporary enforcement discretion related to certain MA policies during the COVID Public Health Emergency. Some plans used this accommodation to make mid-year benefice enhancements to their plans. For example,...
Weekly Recaps
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Workforce Policy Update. Here is your weekly Workforce Policy Update. Life Plan Community Weekly Update. Here is your...
North Central and Northeast Members, No Cost Resident to Staff Aggression Training is Coming...
The OSHA grant funded Resident to Staff Aggression: Prevention and Response training will be held in-person in Mankato (April 19) and Lenexa (April 20). Get your team registered so you can join us for...