Healthcare Finance, Sept. 8, 2026: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun implementing a new inspection process that will give certain higher-performing nursing homes shorter, more focused recertification surveys…

Skilled Nursing News, Sept. 4, 2026: The agency ultimately seeks to strike a balance between beneficiaries’ diverse needs in SNPs while also creating consistent quality standards and measurements even as enrollment continues to grow.

McKnight’s LTC News, Sept. 2, 2026: Changes would make it easier for regulators to remove skilled nursing providers from the Medicare program — even based on operating in a “high-risk” area — and extend the period for which CMS can claw back fraudulent payments.

Park Place Live, Sept. 2, 2026: After the failures in emergency evacuations of these populations during the tragic Eaton Fire of 2025 that engulfed wide swaths of the Los Angeles area, it was more than necessary to make a major overhaul happen.

McKnight’s LTC News, Aug. 31, 2026: The primary outcome tracked was RSV-associated hospitalization; secondary outcomes included RSV-associated death or severe RSV-associated outcomes requiring an intensive care unit or critical care unit admission.

Skilled Nursing News, Aug. 26, 2026: The proposed rule would expand the circumstances under which CMS could revoke a provider’s Medicare enrollment and, in certain circumstances, make revocations retroactive to the date of the conduct or event that triggered the action, rather than applying them prospectively.

McKnight’s LTC News, Aug. 26, 2026: The shortened surveys, which launch nationwide next month, will be available only to nursing homes that meet an extensive list of qualifications each quarter…

Skilled Nursing News, Aug. 24, 2026: The benefit currently pays for 24-hour services in board-and-care homes, memory care facilities and similar residences. It’s part of the state’s Medicaid overhaul designed to cut down on repeat emergency room visits and expensive hospital stays.

Skilled Nursing News, Aug. 24, 2026: Nursing home validation audits so far show MDS coding gaps tied to insufficient or missing documentation, often because of inadequate record-retention practices