Proposed Nursing Home Staffing Standards ‘Unattainable’ Amid Labor Crisis

Strong Early Pushback to Proposed Staffing Rule

Sep 30, 2023

News Digest: Staffing Shortages and Perceived Benefits Questioned Advocates and the industry absorbed and reacted to CMS' Proposed Rule for Minimum Staffing standards, and quickly shifted into promoting their views. Many questioned the ability to...

AHCA & CliftonLarsonAllen Study the Cost of Minimum Staffing Proposals

Sep 30, 2023

Analysis from CliftonLarsonAllen compares the potential cost to the long term care industry for meeting (proposed) minimum staffing requirements at three potential levels.

High costs to comply with potential minimum staffing rule

Sep 20, 2023

News Digest: High Costs to Comply with Minimum Staffing Rule Before CMS' actual Proposed Rule for minimum staffing was issued in September 2023, researchers, consumer advocates, legislators and industry representatives estimated the potential costs...

President Biden Op-Ed Claims Nursing Homes are Putting Residents at Risk

Sep 1, 2023

News Digest: President Biden Claims Nursing Homes are putting residents at risk With the long anticipated announcement of first-of-their-kind minimum staffing rules, the volume is turned up to 10 across the industry. Knowing the strong pushback...

CMS Issues Proposed Minimum Staffing Rule

Sep 1, 2023

News Digest: CMS Issues Proposed New Minimum Staffing Rule Some predicted that the payroll-based journal program was intended to enable the creation of a minimum staffing requirement. 8 years after the PBJ program was launched, that prediction...

Leaked CMS Study Conflicts with Minimum Staffing Plans

Aug 31, 2023

News Digest: Leaked CMS Study Conflicts with Minimum Staffing Plans A comprehensive report prepared under contract to CMS by ABT Associates summarizes results from a Nursing Home Staffing Study including reseach activities between May and December...

Widening data pool dangerously ‘chumming the waters’ in nursing home lawsuits

Aug 23, 2023

Widening data pool dangerously ‘chumming the waters’ in nursing home lawsuits A broader public data pool that captures practices of individual nursing homes and patterns across portfolios is being used out of context and further complicating the...

With federal staffing proposal near, states also progressing toward minimums

Aug 3, 2023

News Digest: States also pursuing minimum staffing policies While CMS considers implementing a minimum staffing rule for Medicare (ultimately issued September, 2023), a number of state legislatures have taken up the responsibility to ensure...

AHCA lobbies against potential minimum staffing regulations

Jul 25, 2023

News Digest: AHCA lobbies against potential minimum staffing regulations There was a long run up between the 2022 announcement of the INTENTION to create minmium staffing regulations until the Sept 1, 2023 announcement of the ACTUAL Proposed...

Only 5 States Meet Nurse Staff Hour Requirements of Potential Minimum Staffing Mandate for Nursing Homes

Jul 14, 2023

Only 5 States Meet Nurse Staff Hour Requirements of Potential Minimum Staffing Mandate for Nursing HomesAs many skilled nursing facilities are falling short of expected federal requirements for adequate nursing staff, the shortage has led to a...

A legal fight related to Medicaid providers and wages is dropped

Jul 11, 2023

A legal fight related to Medicaid providers and wages is dropped Industry groups and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration have agreed to end a legal fight about part of last year’s state budget that could have opened Medicaid providers...

Congress weighs in on possible minimum staffing rules

Jun 1, 2023

News Digest: Congress Weighs in on possible minimum staffing rules CMS took its time between an early 2022 announcement of the INTENTION to create minmium staffing regulations until the Sept 1, 2023 announcement of the ACTUAL Proposed Minimum...