Choosing a nursing home for yourself or a loved one can feel like a daunting task – especially when the decision is prompted ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Friday it plans to remove reporting about unsubstantiated complaints from Nursing Home Care Compare next month. The agency informed skilled nursing ...

Following the repeal of the federal nursing home staffing mandate, attorneys general from 18 states along with resident advocate associations are asking ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a revised memo Wednesday to strengthen the Special Focus Facility ...

Illinois, along with 17 other states, is opposing the proposed ending of nursing home minimum staffing standards by the ...

Attorneys general in 18 states have asked CMS to reconsider its repeal of the nursing home staffing mandate and to recast a rule focused on for-profit providers.

The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled in September that the state had been using the wrong formula to calculate Medicaid ...

A nursing home cannot directly seize funds held in an individual retirement account (IRA). However, retirement accounts in many states are generally treated as countable assets for Medicaid ...

Across New York, elderly and medically fragile patients sit in hospital beds for days — sometimes weeks — not because they ...

By Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Can you give me some tips on picking a good nursing home for my father? Since his stroke, I’ve been taking care of him at home, but he’s gotten to the point where ...

Ohio owes Medicaid funds to nursing homes after the state underpaid $527 million in the 2024-25 budget, affecting 926 ...

Home-based care executives are increasingly turning to alternative reimbursement models developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...