NIC Spring Conference | Regulatory Environment | Senior Housing | medicare | medicare advantage
By: NIC | April 11, 2024
Insights on senior housing and care from the agency’s top administrator. More data. More dialogue. That was the ask of the industry by the director of the Medicare program during a candid discussion at the 2024 NIC Spring Conference in Dallas.
COVID-19 | Regulatory Environment | medicaid | medicare | telehealth
By: Ryan Brooks | April 19, 2023
Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 to expire on May 11, 2023. The impacts of the public health emergency ending will vary by state, depending on specific policies and programs that were put in place during the emergency.
Business Environment | Regulatory Environment | Skilled Nursing
By: Bill Kauffman | June 16, 2022
Today, ATI Advisory released a research paper, commissioned by NIC, that is a resource for skilled nursing stakeholders, including policymakers. The COVID-19 pandemic reminded our country of the persistent weaknesses of the long-term care system and NIC believes that a study providing the facts — both past and present — would be of tremendous value to stakeholders and is aligned with NIC’s mission of providing access and choice.
Regulatory Environment | Senior Housing | Skilled Nursing
By: Ryan Brooks | November 23, 2021
Updated November 23, 2021 (original blog posted June 29, 2021). The primary tool CMS has for enforcing care standards at skilled nursing properties are civil monetary penalties (CMPs), which are essentially fines for facilities found to be out of compliance with CMS care standards. Based on a national average, CMS penalties for skilled nursing properties had been on the rise from 2016 to the third quarter of 2019.
