Medicare/Medicaid

In October 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (or “CMS”) began using a new abuse icon on the nursing home compare website. The icon looks like this

and is called a “consumer alert icon.” The consumer alert icon …

When you entrust your elderly loved one to a nursing home, you expect that the nursing home will take care of them to the fullest possible extent. Unfortunately, many nursing homes do not truly care about their residents, especially the …

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be implementing major changes to its well-known Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System. As of April 2016, CMS is now posting data for six new quality measures (QMs) on Nursing …