Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog

On April 22, 2024, CMS issued the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting final rule.The final rule was issued a little over seven months after the proposed rule was submitted by CMS on September 6, 2023. During this seven-month period, CMS reported reviewing over 46,000 public comments submitted in response to the proposed rule.

On Monday, February 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), submitted a proposed rule that goes beyond current data collections requirements by requiring nursing facilities to disclose additional information regarding ownership.

On July 14, 2020, Missouri Governor Michael Parson signed into law the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act.  The Act adds twelve new sections to Chapter 198 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri related to the use of authorized and covert electronic monitoring devices in long-term care facilities in Missouri.