Month: December 2025

McKnight’s LTC News, Dec. 18, 2025: The mandatory reporting would begin in 2027, but CMS is currently seeking insurance company volunteers to test a pilot starting in the second half of 2026.

McKnight’s LTC News, Dec. 18, 2025: “This is a delay from the original timeline, which was previously set to begin this past fall…”

McKnight’s LTC News, Dec. 11, 2025: New research adds to growing concerns about how Medicaid underpayments can undermine nursing home care…

Skilled Nursing News, Dec. 10, 2025: Associations including the American Health Care Association and National Centers for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) have long asked for relief from the revalidation process, given the many difficulties faced during the process.

McKnight’s LTC News, Dec. 9, 2025: This is the fourth postponement of a deadline for nursing home owners to provide newly expanded, complicated ownership and business relationship information.

McKnight’s Senior Living, Dec. 4, 2025: “Smart policies and sustained funding are essential to ensure adequate numbers of trained and qualified nurse aides, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and other caregivers who serve older adults across the aging services continuum…”

McKnight’s LTC, Dec. 2, 2025: The move follows months of legal and legislative challenges, which had already rendered hourly staffing and registered nurse requirements moot.

KFF Health News, Dec. 2, 2025: Only 347 of the nation’s roughly 14,750 nursing homes have specialized units dedicated to people on ventilators, a KFF Health News analysis of federal data shows.