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CMS Asks for Public Input on Establishing First, National Directory of Health Care Providers and Services

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October 7, 2022
As part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) ongoing work to improve access to care, reduce clinician burden, and support interoperability throughout the health sector, the agency has released a Request for Information (RFI)...

CMS Releases Request for Information to Help Promote Efficiency, Reduce Burden, and Advance Equity

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October 7, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Make Your Voice Heard Request for Information (RFI) to get your input. It wants to: Understand your experience, including factors which affect provider wellness Learn about...

CMS Ends Nursing Home CNA Training Wavier

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October 7, 2022
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rejected requests to extend its waiver allowing nursing homes to employ temporary nurse aides (TNA) for more than four months without certified nursing aid training. CMS announced the...

CMS Makes More Medicare Nursing Home Ownership Data Publicly Available, Improving Identification of Multiple Facilities Under Common Ownership

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October 1, 2022
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), made additional information publicly available that provides more data about the ownership of all Medicare-certified...

Important Dates and Deadlines for MIPS

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October 1, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines in 2022: October MIPS eligibility for the 2022 performance year will be...

House Holds Hearing on COVID Impact in Nursing Homes

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September 25, 2022
Last week, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis convened a hearing, Examining Long-Term Care in America: The Impact of the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes . Witnesses included nursing home experts, advocates, and frontline workers;...

The Society Joins in Urging Congress to Stabilize Medicare Physician Payment System

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September 23, 2022
Last week the Society—along with the American Medical Association and over 100 national and state medical societies—joined together in writing a letter urging congressional leaders to stabilize the Medicare physician payment system. In 2023,...

GAO Issues Report: CMS Needs to Continue to Strengthen Oversight of Infection Prevention and Control

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September 23, 2022
On September 14, 2022, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report, COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: CMS Needs to Continue to Strengthen Oversight of Infection Prevention and Control. The report recommends that CMS strengthen...

Ask Your Representatives to Support the Nursing Home Disclosure Act

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September 16, 2022
Last week, Reps. Mike Levin (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) worked with the Society to introduce H.R. 8832, The Nursing Home Disclosure Act . The bipartisan bill would require nursing homes to report their medical directors to the Centers for...

CMS Virtual Listening Session

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September 9, 2022
WHAT: Virtual listening session with health care providers and suppliers on emergency preparedness. Note: Due to an overwhelming interest in this session, we have increased capacity from 150 to 450 registrants, but we ask that registration be...