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On December 31, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a memo titled “Long-Term Care (LTC) Facility Acute Respiratory Illness Reporting Requirements” (“Memo”) to state survey agency directors providing survey guidance related to requirements for long-term care reporting through the National Healthcare Safety Network (“NHSN”) as COVID-19 data reporting requirements ended... READ MORE

On May 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule (“Final Rule”) that withdraws the COVID vaccine requirement for health care workers of Medicare-certified and Medicaid-certified long-term care facilities (“LTC Facilities”). The Final Rule follows through on the May 1, 2023 memorandum released by the Quality, Safety &... READ MORE