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Federal lawmakers are calling for action following a CBS 6 investigation examining the financial records of Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
While denying plans to directly cut Social Security checks, the Trump administration is imposing job cuts, office closures ...
Skilled nursing providers would see a 2.8% raise next fiscal year, or $196.5 million according to a proposed pay rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 11 proposed increasing the long-term care hospital standard rate payments ...
She is concerned that cuts being debated at the federal government could make these services even less accessible. “It’s very ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 11 issued a proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility ...
The U.S. budget deficit has grown to more than $1.3 trillion in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year — the second highest six-month deficit on record, according to Treasury Department data released ...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is urging states to not use Medicaid funds for gender-affirming care for ...
Bruce Greenstein, who resigned in 2013 amid a contract scandal, is reappointed to lead Louisiana’s Department of Health under ...
The Trump administration is floating a 2.4% pay raise for inpatient hospital’s payments for fiscal year 2026. | All told, CMS ...
Just weeks after being cut off from Medicaid funding, a Topeka nursing home is now closed.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services put out a notice in February 2025 that it was terminating its ...