On July 31, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) final rule. Highlights of the final rule include the following: To access the FY 2025 SNF Final Rule Fact Sheet, click HERE. To access the complete FY 2025 SNF final rule, click HERE.

On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule for skilled nursing facilities that will impact nurse staffing, RN on-site requirement, strengthening the facility assessment requirement, and permitting regulatory flexibility. The final rule will be implemented over 3 phases. For non-rural facilities, the final rule is phased in over 3 years from the date the final rule was published in the federal register. For rural facilities, the final rule is phased in over 5 years from the date the final rule was published in the federal register. To access the Final Rule Fact

On March 28, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) proposed rule. To read a summary of the proposed rule, click HERE. To read the entire proposed rule, click HERE. CMS will accept public comments on the proposed rule until May 28, 2024.

On July 31, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) final rule. To access the final rule, click HERE. To access the CMS Fact Sheet on this final rule, click HERE.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the fiscal year (FY) 2024 proposed rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). To access the CMS Fact Sheet on each of the proposed rules, click on the applicable link below. Within each Fact Sheet will be a link to access the proposed rule on the Federal Register website. Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Fact Sheet Skilled Nursing Facility Fact Sheet

On April 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed rule for skilled nursing facilities for Part A services reimbursed under Patient Driven Payment Model. Comments on the proposed rule must be received by June 10, 2022. To access the proposed rule, click

On April 8, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) proposed rule. Comments will be accepted on the proposed rule until 5:00pm on June 7, 2021. The proposed rule is schedule to be published in the Federal Register on April 15, 2021. Highlights of the proposed rule include the following: CMS is proposing to update the SNF payment rates by 1.3% CMS is soliciting broad public comments on a potential methodology for recalibrating the PDPM parity adjustment that would account for the potential effects of the COVID-19 PHE

On July 31, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 final rule titled “Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Value-Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2021“. Highlights of the final rule include the following: CMS projects that aggregate Medicare program payments to SNFs will increase by $750 million, or 2.2 percent, for FY 2021 compared to FY 2020. Changes to the ICD-10 code mappings, effective October 1, 2020 to classify SNF patients into payment groups. CMS is finalizing