Skilled nursing facilities must navigate upcoming 2026 requirements, including strict quality reporting deadlines, Medicare payment rate updates, documentation changes, and new AI-powered tools.

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) historically have been required to disclose ownership and managerial control information as part of their Medicare enrollment. However, these requirements were ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) have indefinitely suspended the mandatory off-cycle Skilled Nursing Facility (“SNF”) provider enrollment revalidation deadline – one CMS most ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is adding electronic prior authorization to the Health Tech Ecosystem, ...

Nursing homes will see a 3.2% increase in their Medicare Part A payments next fiscal year, CMS announced late Thursday. That's a jump from a pay rule proposed in April, in which CMS proposed a 2.8% ...

CMS's latest updates for Skilled Nursing Facilities combine higher payment rates with expanded quality reporting and a new audit program verifying care data accuracy. The rule recalibrates PDPM rates, ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making updates to Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System ...

A retrospective analysis of 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates among skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) between 2017 and 2022 compared those that had implemented an interventional analytics ...

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CMS will begin publishing skilled nursing facility ownership data to its consumer-facing Care Compare website starting July 30. CMS has published ownership information, including performance measures ...

John Kane, one of the nation’s top skilled nursing payment experts, on Monday joined the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living as senior vice president of reimbursement ...