Nursing homes and long-term care: regulatory and accreditation changes
This page collects dated changes for nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living and long-term services and supports: Federal Register rules and corrections, CMS survey memos to state agencies, and accreditor items. Each entry quotes or reports one sentence from the authority's page, links to it, and adds effective dates or comment deadlines when the source states them. Entries from accreditors whose terms limit reuse show title, date and link only. IHS prepares long-term care and aging-services organizations for CARF and ACHC accreditation and LTSS programs for URAC review, with NCQA work led by Maureen Plumstead, so these updates are part of the record IHS reads each day. The entries do not interpret the changes, and the linked source is the original wording.
Related IHS services: CARF Person-Centered Long-Term Care Community Accreditation Consulting
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Skilled Nursing Facilities: Accurately Report Your Related-Party Costs
· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services states: “In a report , the Office of Inspector General found that some skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) didn't comply with Medicare requirements for reporting related-party costs.”
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· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Full title: Enhancing Compliance and Payment Accuracy for Physician Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities-Update (Transmittal R13995CP)
CMS issued transmittal R13995CP (Change Request 14682), "Enhancing Compliance and Payment Accuracy for Physician Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities-Update", on October 8, 2026, with an implementation date of 2027-04-05.
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