A nursing home found to have erred in 99 of 100 reimbursement submissions during the pandemic is fighting back against those ...

Efforts to reduce avoidable inpatient hospitalizations among nursing facility residents have been ongoing for years. As an example of these initiatives, CMS ran a program from 2012 to 2020 focusing on ...

State oversight of nursing homes received a scathing performance audit, released on Wednesday. The Office of the State Auditor (OSA) released its audit of the Department of Health and Human Services’ ...

California’s largest nursing home company and the state Department of Public Health are both criticizing a recent audit that says state oversight fell short as patient care violations increased. “[The ...

A federal watchdog plans to audit nursing homes’ use of related parties, and the results could ultimately lead to even more oversight for the already highly regulated sector. The Health and Human ...

Louisiana’s payments to private nursing homes for taking care of Medicaid patients have risen substantially over the last decade, with the facilities pocketing ever-higher dollars from the state even ...

CMS is focusing on the overcoding of schizophrenia, since patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are not included in a metric that measures a nursing home’s rate of antipsychotic medications. Nursing ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — An audit conducted by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli states the New York State Department of Health (DOH) was not prepared to handle an infectious disease outbreak ...

Stakeholders are advocating improvements in the New York State Department of Health’s data practices after an audit released Tuesday found that it understated the number of COVID-related nursing home ...