AHCA/NCAL

AHCA/NCAL has announced our support for support for the bipartisan “Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act.” This would make long-needed changes to the Medicare three-day stay requirement.

ICYMI: the Biden Administration announced the Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Final Rule this week. The finalization has been met with bipartisan opposition from lawmakers, as well as long term care leaders and health care policy experts across the country.

Read our statement in response to the Biden Administration's announcement about the Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Final Rule.

In case you missed it, Clif Porter, SVP of government relations at AHCA/NCAL, discusses the growing bipartisan opposition to the proposed federal staffing mandate for nursing homes in a new op-ed published in RealClearHealth.

CMS earlier this week released the Medicaid Managed Care final rule, marking a substantial update in the framework governing Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care plans.

The Office of Inspector General is overhauling their Compliance Program Guidance as part of an initiative to modernize the accessibility and usability of their publicly available resources.

There is a new location for accessing the Patient Assessment Change Request Forms for the Minimum Data Set, effective immediately.