McKnight’s LTC News, Oct. 6, 2025: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)… recommended Monday that COVID-19 shots only be available for people 65 and older and only be administered through shared decision-making with healthcare providers.

McKnight’s LTC, Oct. 1, 2025: CMS said it would focus its limited efforts during the shutdown to protecting Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries “against immediate dangers to life and health” and preventing providers and suppliers from interruptions that threaten their ability to provide vital healthcare services.

McKnight’s LTC, Sept. 30, 2025: While changes range from the removal of an entire section to updates to therapy reporting requirements, it’s an expansion of the kinds of falls that need to be reported and concern about how non-major injuries stemming from falls can be interpreted that are raising the most concern.

McKnight’s LTC News, Sept. 30, 2025: The agency has increased the project funding cap by 20% and also noted the “resumption” of workforce enhancement and other projects.

McKnight’s LTC, Sept. 30: 2025: …many essential support services, survey activities and other important functions will not be spared from the outset and a drawn out shutdown will be hurtful.

Skilled Nursing News, Sept. 26, 2025: “This cohort study of the SNF VBP program found that financial incentives were small, with large year-to-year variability for individual SNFs. This may have limited the program’s ability to induce meaningful investments to reduce hospital readmission…”

McKnight’s LTC News, Sept. 24, 2025: The latest legal maneuvers bring the administration’s strategies in line with each other, making the staffing rule’s final defeat all but certain.

McKnight’s LTC News, Sept. 18, 2025: The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General examined a year’s worth of MDS assessments and linked Medicare claims to assess whether falls resulting in major injury and hospitalization were reported in the MDS.

McKnight’s LTC News, Sept. 17. 2025: The program had been set to start with the awarding of grants to five to 10 financial incentive administrators around April 2025…

McKnight’s LTC News, Sept. 11, 2025: All other information will continue to be frozen, based on data that populated July 30. The next overall update will take place with the late October refresh.