CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced Monday that his agency is moving forward with $75 million in funding to support a long-awaited tuition reimbursement and training program for nursing home staff.

CMS on Monday updated its nursing home staffing campaign website for the first time since January, revealing that the program’s major incentives won’t be ready for launch until at least next spring.

Advocates are urging CMS to reinstate mandatory federal training requirements for nursing aides working directly with nursing home residents, citing safety concerns, Bloomberg Law reported Dec. 10.

CMS has conducted extensive testing of the systems implemented to support transitions to ICD-10, but the true functionality of those systems will not be fully known until code processing begins on Oct ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has requested information on two technologies that could revolutionize the way health care claims are settled. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Nursing homes may get more time to certify temporary nurse aides hired under relaxed training rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. In revised guidance issued Monday, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

The CMS plans to end certain Medicaid demonstration waivers granting states more flexibility in how they administer Medicaid, in the Trump administration’s latest cutback of the safety-net insurance ...