CMS Increases iQIES Security, Deactivating Inactive Users
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin implementing an inactive user policy for iQIES this in May 2024. iQIES hosts individual agency and facility data for home health, hospice and skilled...
CMS Announces PACE Overpayment Recovery in June
On May 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memo outlining a recent finding that CMS had been double-paying PACE organizations through a prospective mechanism. PACE organizations receive two prospective...
Final MDS Item Set 1.19.1 Now Available
CMS released the final item sets for Minimum Data Set (MDS) 1.19.1 on May 17. These item sets will be effective October 1, 2024 and are available in the Downloads section of the MDS...
Update on $75 Million CMS Staffing Mandate Workforce Campaign Initiative
LeadingAge followed up with CMS regarding the letter sent to Administrator Brooks-LaSure in April asking questions and to partner with CMS, about the $75 million to HRSA for a staffing, recruitment and training, campaign...
Weekly Recaps: May 22, 2024
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Nursing Home Weekly Update
Affordable Housing Weekly Update
Hospice Weekly Update
Home Health Weekly Update
Workforce Weekly...
LeadingAge to Join Lawsuit to Stop Staffing Rule
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...
Update on KanCare Transition
LeadingAge Kansas and Kansas Healthcare Association met with KDHE Secretary Stanek last week to discuss the announcement of the MCO contracts and the implications it will have for providers and consumers. Secretary Stanek assured...
Kansas Legislative Special Session
Lobbyists and legislators have been eagerly waiting for Governor Kelly to announce the dates of the special session for the 2024 legislative year, and it was finally announced this morning. The special session will...
Joint Legislative Committee on KanCare Oversight
While no formal announcement has come out for the Bob Bethell Joint Committee on KanCare Oversight, quarter two of the calendar year is slowly ending, meaning its announcement will come at any time. It...
OSHA Announces Rule Updating the Hazard Communication Standard
On May 21, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration announced a final rule that will update the current Hazard Communication Standard. To ensure chemical safety in the workplace, information about the identities and hazards of...
DUALS Act Introduced in House
Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) introduced the House version of the Delivering Unified Access to Lifesaving Services (DUALS) Act on May 23. This is similar legislation to the bill, S.3950, introduced...
CMS Releases FAQs for PACE and MAOs on Overpayment Reruns
On May 21, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released FAQs from a User Group Call that occurred on May 1 regarding submission of risk adjustment data for PACE and Medicare Advantage Organizations...