McKnight’s LTC News, Feb. 10, 2026: “We’re going [away] from what we used to call value-based payment — you should think about Fee-for-Service payments separate from captive payments and all these other structures — and even Fee-for-Service has changed.”

McKnight’s LTC News, Feb. 3, 2026: “We urge CMS to enact a replacement regulation that mandates tailored quantitative minimum staffing requirements, which would prevent Medicare and Medicaid fraud, protect vulnerable long-term care residents, and improve access to care,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) wrote Monday.

McKnight’s LTC News, Feb. 1, 2026: Many of the updates tweak items to reflect information already shared with providers in previous memos, but experts said others have more substantial impact for both surveyors and nursing home teams.