The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday that it will begin posting certain nursing home ownership information, as well as aggregated MDS data for all residents at a facility, ...

CMS recently issued a memo outlining “areas of concern” related to missing or inaccurate patient information when patients are transitioning from hospitals to post-acute care providers. The memo, ...

The proposed staffing minimum exceeds the existing standards in most states. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' newly released proposed rule for minimum staffing standards for the nation's ...

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.

With President-elect Donald Trump's recent announcement of former surgeon-turned-TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questions are swirling about ...

Contractors working to modernize a provider enrollment system have been shown the door, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced. Instead, CMS will work with the highly influential ...

Good morning! I’m Lauren Weber, a health accountability reporter focused on the forces behind medical misinformation. Today I’m diving into our coverage of the man most people know as Dr. Oz. We ...

A new study on Medicare Advantage has found that the program’s lower use of post-acute care has a “spillover” effect when it comes to traditional Medicare plans. The research examined Medicare ...

The Biden administration wants to minimize the fallout from the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), whenever it occurs. At the top of the list of concerns is the insurance status ...

Throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have experienced an influx of COVID-19 patients. As of October 29, 2021, over 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries were hospitalized in short-term ...