Action Alert: Urge Congress to Fix the CNA Training Lockout!
Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) are an integral part of the aging services workforce. Unfortunately, many CNA training programs have been suspended in nursing homes due to an outdated provision of federal law, known as...
CMS Announces Proposed Rule to Strengthen Accrediting Organization Oversight and to Prevent Conflict of...
On February 8th, CMS announced a proposed rule for Strengthening Oversight of Accrediting Organizations (AOs) and Preventing AO Conflict of Interest. AOs survey over 9,000 health care providers and suppliers participating in the Medicare/Medicaid...
LeadingAge Meets with CMS Center for Program Integrity (CPI) Staff on Hospice Audits
LeadingAge met with the Center for Program Integrity leadership on February 7th to discuss follow up on their survey results. CPI was very interested to hear from members regarding their issues with audits. LeadingAge...
CMS Updates Hospice Item Set and Comprehensive Assessment Manuals
On February 9th, CMS posted updates to a number of hospice quality reporting program (HQRP) manuals and fact sheets. The HQRP manual updates were primarily to incorporate changes in terminology, referencing the Consensus-based Entity,...
NHSN Outage Scheduled for February 23rd – 25th
NHSN sent an email blast on February 12th notifying users that a system upgrade will take the application offline Friday, February 23rd, through Sunday, February 25th. This means that NHSN users will be unable...
Weekly Recaps: February 14, 2024
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Affordable Housing Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Affordable Housing Update
Nursing Home Weekly Update. Here is your...
Kansas Capitol Happenings for Week Ending February 23rd
Both the Senate Ways and Means (SWAM) Human Services subcommittee and the House Social Services Budget committee have made their recommendations on the KDADS and KDHE budgets. See what was included in each below:
Senate House Nursing...
KDHE to Host Quarterly Nursing Facility Collaboration Meetings
The Kansas Department for Health and Environment Medicaid Eligibility department plans to host quarterly nursing facility collaboration meetings starting March 1st. The meetings will be separated out based on NF unit numbers, will have...
Feedback on HCBS Final Settings Rule Policies Due Friday
If you are interested in submitting comments on the two policies released by KDADS regarding the HCBS Final Settings rule, you can do so here. The two policies are the Ongoing Monitoring policy and...
Senators Push Department of Labor to Better Track Nonprofit Workforce Data
On February 12th, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) sent a letter to Department of Labor Acting Secretary Julie Su and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, requesting they begin tracking...
LeadingAge Submits Response on CMMI VBID RFI
On February 16th, LeadingAge submitted a response to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Request for Information (RFI) for the Value-Based Insurance Design Model (VBID). LeadingAge strongly advised CMMI to exert extreme...
Call for Participants in Benchmark Study
Marsh's Senior Living & LTC Industry Practice and Oliver Wyman's Actuarial Practice is inviting LeadingAge members to participate in an exclusive liability benchmark study that aims to provide critical insights into important trends, loss...