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McKnight’s LTC News, April 6, 2026: The bulk of that — roughly 964,000 hours each year — would be caused by the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services expanding its collection of quality reporting data across all Medicare payer types.

Skilled Nursing News, April 3, 2026: With these updates, the federal agency said in a memo that it seeks to make surveys, enforcement, and dispute resolution simpler, clearer and more consistent.

Skilled Nursing News, April 2, 2026: Associations representing the nursing home sector seem split on whether the rate increase is adequate for the needs of today’s nursing home residents.

McKnight’s LTC News, March 19, 2026: Two new reports from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General rebuked skilled nursing facilities for overprescribing antipsychotic drugs, which can have a sedative effect and pose an increased risk of death for elderly patients with dementia.

AHCA/NCAL, March 10, 2026: The update reinforces a clear message: effective planning, coordination, and continuous readiness are central to protecting patients, staff, and communities before, during, and after emergencies.

McKnight’s LTC News, March 6, 2026:  …the agency (CMS) is undertaking a review “with the goal of supporting clinically indicated use while continuing to discourage inappropriate prescribing.”

Skilled Nursing News, Feb. 20, 2026: Data collected from these assessments, and the way they are counted, will impact future fiscal years, including 2028.

Skilled Nursing News, Feb. 17, 2026: “We’re not through with these new hybrid claims measures. We’re going to start seeing these become more and more prevalent.”

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.”