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Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
April 29, 2024

CMS Issues Final Rule for Minimum Staffing Standards for Nursing Homes

On April 22, 2024, CMS issued the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting final rule.The final rule was issued a little over seven months after the proposed rule was submitted by CMS on September 6, 2023. During this seven-month period, CMS reported reviewing over 46,000 public comments submitted in response to the proposed rule.