CMS is focusing on the overcoding of schizophrenia, since patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are not included in a metric that measures a nursing home’s rate of antipsychotic medications. Nursing ...

Efforts to reduce avoidable inpatient hospitalizations among nursing facility residents have been ongoing for years. As an example of these initiatives, CMS ran a program from 2012 to 2020 focusing on ...

Every skilled nursing facility in the US will be subject to a five-claim audit starting the week of June 5 as regulators try to better assess and root out improper payments. The Centers for Medicare & ...

Nursing home and long-term care operators have already faced a number of key shifts since the beginning of 2023. Consider a recent example from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: an update ...

Demonstrators gather beside a presentation depicting the number 15,000 to denote estimated nursing home deaths, before a rally decrying former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the previous year's ...