Candidates Can’t Secure Placements, While Vacancies in Leadership Persist
Developing the next generation of leadership in skilled nursing communities continues to vex the industry as the next generation of leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to find placement for Administrator in Training (AIT)...
Join Us This Friday for our Weekly Webinars
Join us each Friday at 10:00 AM CT for the Weekly Webcast Update. If you have not registered to view the weekly webinar, you can do so here. For archives of past Weekly Webcast Updates,...
5 Star Reports Were Sent Out Last Week
Last week, LeadingAge Kansas sent all nursing home providers a personalized 5-Star Report to their organization with options for trending the QMs. The latest 5-star report for the data was released October 1, 2023.
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Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Hospice Provider Webinar and Updates
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model team will host a Hospice Provider Webinar on November 9th at 2:00 PM CT. During this webinar, presenters will provide key information...
Weekly Recaps
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
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Annual 2023 Financial Trends and Ratios Analysis for CCRCs Publication Released Late October
This article summarizes the webinar and publication that were released in tandem, along with a press release by Baker Tilly. Both single site (SSO) and multi-site (MSO) CCRCs’ FY2022 performance, in many of the...
CMS Finalizes Proposed Hospice Special Focus Program Algorithm
After LeadingAge and their industry partners went through tremendous efforts to educate CMS on the reality of implementing the proposed Special Focus Program (SFP) as proposed in the CY2024 Home Health Rule, CMS has...
Final Home Health PPS Rule Published; Cut Reduced by Half; LeadingAge Continues to Advocate...
On Wednesday, November 1st at 3:15 PM CT, CMS released the final Home Health prospective payment rule for CY2024. CMS backed off on their initial proposed cut; CMS finalized a -2.89% cut, offset by...
HHS Releases Proposed Rule Establishing “Disincentives” for Information Blocking
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on November 1st published a proposed rule for public comment that would establish disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS Office of Inspector...
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Address the Shortage of Doctors and Nurses
On November 2nd, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), introduced bipartisan legislation to address the shortage of doctors and nurses. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would...
LeadingAge Joins Letter to CMS on the Staffing Mandate’s Exclusion of LPNs
On October 27th, LeadingAge joined several organizations in sending a letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure highlighting the agency’s failure to acknowledge and include Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) in the proposed federal staffing rule. ...
LeadingAge Comments on Nursing Home Staffing Standards
LeadingAge posted their comments on the nursing home staffing standards proposed rule to the Federal Register on November 1st. Read the press release and access the comments here.