Nursing homes will receive a 2.2% Medicare pay raise to owners for fiscal 2021. Nursing home operators will receive an aggregate $750 million Medicare pay increase for fiscal year 2021 beginning Oct. 1, 2020. A CMS fact sheet on SNF PPS (CMS-1737-F) can be found here. The final rule for SNF PPS (CMS-1737-F) can be found here. CMS

Michigan may finally allow video cameras inside the rooms of nursing home residents three years after the bill was first introduced. Republican Sen. Jim Runestad introduced the bill three years ago. He says the legislation is gaining traction now because of COVID-19. This is necessary because families cannot visit loved ones. “For so many of

Fox2Detroit reported the arrest of Tirrell Mercer, Jr. He was a caregiver at Villa at Green Lake Estates.  Police arrested him for assault and stealing the wedding ring of the finger of a resident. The attack allegedly happened just days after the woman moved into the facility. (Warning: the video contains images of the assault that may

Quality of Care The COVID pandemic has disproportionately affected nursing home residents and staff. They account for 40 percent of deaths in the U.S. More than 75,000 residents and employees of America’s nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have died from COVID-19. Why are nursing homes hot spots in the pandemic? They combine numerous risk

Potential Alzheimer’s Cure? There has been such bad news for nursing home residents and the aging population lately. As a nursing home attorney, we see many families with members with Alzheimer’s dementia. It is the most common form of dementia. But maybe a cure is coming. Recently, researchers discovered a key to a potential cure

Is it safe to let schools open? Should we let them play? This past week, 1,500 people died of Covid-19 in a single day. The highest reported number of Covid-19 deaths since May. For 19 days, we have lost an average of more than 1000 people a day. A report in the New York Times