CMS Quality Conference Registration Now Open

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Registration is now open for the 2024 CMS Quality Conference. The annual conference will be held at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor April 8th-10th in Baltimore, Maryland and includes a virtual option.  Last year,...

LeadingAge Meets with CMS Center for Program Integrity (CPI) Staff on Hospice Audits 

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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...

KING Annual Meeting Scheduled 

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KING Members are invited to the Annual Membership Meeting lunch on April 11th held in conjunction with the LeadingAge Kansas Spring Conference in Manhattan.  Attendees will be presented with the annual financial & investment...

NHSN Outage Scheduled for February 23rd – 25th 

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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 

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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...

CMS Updates Hospice Item Set and Comprehensive Assessment Manuals 

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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,...