Virtual care proponents are concerned about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services scrapping pandemic-era ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hoping to improve Medicaid enrollees’ access to care through a final rule that better compensates caregiving roles. Under the final rule, at least ...

While the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) at first was expected to provide financial relief for nursing homes and therapy providers, the ...

The Biden administration issued a proposal Friday to cut reimbursements to home health providers by 2.2% next year, or an estimated $375 million less than 2023 payment levels. The Centers for Medicare ...

With both Medicaid budgets and Medicare home health reimbursement rates under pressure, home-based care providers are facing intensifying financial ...

Columbia, MD – Provider Partners Health Plans announced today that all its CMS-rated Medicare Advantage plans for 2026 earned an overall 4 Stars or ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday dropped a pair of surprise memos that will have an immediate effect on one-fifth of all nursing homes’ ratings and give consumers more timely ...

CMS has launched a Nursing Home Staffing Campaign to address industry-wide workforce shortage concerns as organizations attempt to stop an impending minimum nursing home staffing rule in the courts.

CMS estimates that Medicare payments to home health agencies in 2023 will increase in the aggregate by 0.7%, or $125 million, compared with 2022. This increase reflects the effects of the 4% home ...

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice has filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the United States Department of Health and Human Services that ...

On her sister’s deathbed, Wanda Knox made a promise: she would never put her nephew, Sharod Knox, into a care facility. That ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...