Let Us Help Your Team Celebrate National Nursing Home Week – Drawing is Friday!
Enter for a chance to win one of two $500 gift cards to be used for celebrating your amazing team during National Nursing Home Week May 14-20, 2023.
Two winners will be randomly selected from...
Last Call! Online Adult Care Home Operator’s Course Starts May 3rd
This 4-week course combines independent online learning with Zoom sessions and includes all the requirements from the state-approved operator’s course for assisted living and state licensed only adult care homes. In addition to requirements,...
Friday Weekly Webcast
Join us each Friday Morning at 10:00 AM for the Weekly Webcast Update. This week we will find out who won the $500 gift card to help their organization celebrate Nursing Home Week (May...
Provider Relief Deadline for Period 4 Late Reporting is This Friday, April 28th
Providers have until this Friday, April 28th at 10:59 PM CST to submit a late reporting requesting if they missed the deadline for submitting Provider Relief Fund Report for Period 4, which was due...
CMS Releases Optional State Assessment Item Set and Manual for Nursing Homes
The Optional State Assessment (OSA) Item Set, OSA Manual, and OSA Change History table are now available in the Downloads section on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual page....
FDA Announces Changes to COVID Vaccine Guidelines and Eligibility
The FDA has announced important changes to COVID vaccine guidelines and eligibility for the general U.S. population, as well as for special categories such as young children, older adults, and immunocompromised persons. Drs. Robert...
State Department Issues a Cap on EB-3 International Visa Petition Filings
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs May bulletin, released on April 14th, imposes a cap on new employment-based (EB) visa petition filings. The State Department notice is required by the 1990...
More Details on Lobby Day – 156 Congressional Meetings!
Here’s a graphic depiction of LeadingAge’s Lobby Day 2023. 225 members participated in visits with 156 offices of members of Congress from 32 states and the District of Columbia. Thank you to members who...
Life Plan Community Member Network April Meeting
The Life Plan Community Member Network will meet on April 27th at 1:00 PM CST. A panel of experts from Perkins Eastman, Green Hammer (both architecture firms) and Rose Villa members, will discuss “the...
After a Year of LeadingAge Advocacy, HHS Makes Home Health and Hospice Ownership Data...
In support of the President’s Executive Order on promoting competition and the Administration’s commitment to transparency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing ownership data for all Medicare-certified hospice and...
CMS Announces New Comparative Billing Reports for Hospices
In April, CMS will issue a Comparative Billing Report (CBR) on Medicare Part B claims for hospice care. Hospices are expected to use this data-driven report to compare their billing practices with those of...
CMS Issues Reminder to Home Health Agencies to Include FIPS Codes on Claims
Section 4137 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 extends the rural add-on policy by providing an increase of 1% of the payment amount made for home health services provided in the ‘‘low population density’’...