Updated: CMS releases anticipated state timelines for initiating unwinding-related Medicaid renewals
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 02, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today posted the anticipated state timelines for initiating unwinding-related Medicaid renewals.
AHCA/NCAL asks HHS to extend COVID-19 public health emergency past Jan. 11
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 03, 2022
The COVID-19 public health emergency should be extended past Jan. 11 “so that long-term and post-acute care providers can continue to offer the most efficient and effective care possible and so our nation’s...
Some assisted living providers to get more money via provider relief funds
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 26, 2023
Arkansas assisted living providers participating in the state’s Medicaid waiver program are about to be on the receiving end of part of $2 million in federal provider relief funds.
More news for Monday, Nov. 7
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 07, 2022
HUD opens 5th round of COVID supplemental payments, reduces reimbursements for senior housing … Front Porch expands memory care programs to meet increasing demand … Active adult data now available...
COVID-19 public health emergency will not end in January: reports
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 14, 2022
The public health emergency due to COVID-19 will not end in January, according to published reports.
More news for Wednesday, July 19
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 19, 2023
Arkansas working on new rates for assisted living Medicaid enrollees … Timing of 6.5% Medicaid rate increase to NY assisted living providers remains unclear … Oregon weighs repeal of COVID-19 PHE,...
Public health emergency extension needed so operators can respond to ‘ever-evolving pandemic,’ AHCA/NCAL...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 10, 2022
The American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted living has asked the federal government to extend the public health emergency through the end of the year, given the emergence of new...
More news for Tuesday, Nov. 8
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 08, 2022
Sabra Health Care REIT to move 24 North American Health Care properties to Ensign, Avamere … Welltower to move 147 ProMedica SNFs to Integra Health JV … Former owner permanently barred from operating...
25 governors call on feds to ‘move on’ from pandemic, end COVID-19 public health emergency
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 21, 2022
Twenty-five Republican governors have signed a letter asking President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency, saying “it is time we move on from the pandemic and get back to life as normal.”