Workshop Webinar and New Comment Tools on Proposed Staffing Mandates
Were you unable to join LeadingAge for the Staffing Mandates Comments: Encouraging Community Participation Workshop? Do you want to go back and review it? Find the recording here. This workshop helps Nursing home provider...
CMS Launches Site for Hospices to Update Care Compare Demographic Information
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created a webpage on the hospice quality reporting program webpage to help hospices update their demographic information on the Care Compare website. The new resource will...
Call for Data and Comments to Inform HCBS Accessibility Map
The HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) posted a call for public input to inform an Evidence Map on Home and Community Based Services. The solicitation includes multiple specific questions on which...
CMS Issues Non-Compliance Letters for CY 2024 APU for Home Health Agencies
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will provide notifications to home health agencies that were determined to be out of compliance with the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) requirements for calendar...
CMS Announces 2024 Medicare Premiums and Deductibles
On October 12th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a Fact Sheet with 2024 premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts for Medicare Part A and Part B, among other information.
Medicare Part B Premiums/Deductibles:...
Medicare Open Enrollment Kicked Off October 15th
Now is a great time for LeadingAge members to have a conversation with their residents, clients, customers, and their families about their Medicare options. Providers can share information about what Medicare Advantage and Special...
HHS Begins Transition of Paxlovid to Commercial Market, Protecting Medicare, and Medicaid Beneficiaries
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a statement on its agreement with Pfizer to extend patient access to Paxlovid, aimed at minimizing taxpayer investment, as Paxlovid is transitioned to the...
Emergency Preparedness Reports from OIG
The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released three separate reports on nursing home emergency preparedness in September. Read more here.
These reports are just the latest in a string of activity from...
Weekly Recaps
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...
Join us for another Online Adult Care Operator’s Course by GERTI
Are you interested in becoming a Kansas Certified Adult Care Home Operator? Then this course is perfect for you! LeadingAge Kansas and GERTI are bringing a 4-week online Adult Care Home Operators course for...
Fall 2023 Joint Provider Workshop is Coming to You
This year’s Fall Joint Provider is right around the corner! Join us in Topeka, Wichita, or virtually to hear about staff competencies, best practices, and MDS Survey trends. Up to 6.5 CE hours are...
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,...