As the new head of the Medicare program, I encourage everyone with Medicare to take full advantage of this year's Open Enrollment period. This is your once-a-year opportunity to take a fresh look at ...

Medicare’s nursing home ratings are one tool people can use to evaluate potential long-term care facilities. While they offer insight into staff levels and performance on health and quality ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), Center for Clinical Standards and Quality recently announced upcoming changes to skilled nursing facility (“SNF”) profiles on the Medicare Care ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has begun posting nursing home affiliations on Nursing Home Care Compare. CMS’ goal in publishing the information is to help consumers more easily ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday announced it is making major changes to its Care Compare site, including the elimination of old, third-cycle inspection results from its ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday it is freezing its chief nursing home information source for consumers to ensure data accuracy after behind-the-scenes technical changes.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service assigns a five-star rating to every facility in the U.S. that accepts its payment. The rating considers health inspection data, staffing information and ...

CMS will begin publishing skilled nursing facility ownership data to its consumer-facing Care Compare website starting July 30. CMS has published ownership information, including performance measures ...

A new five-star rating system of nursing homes by Medicare is drawing mixed reaction by administrators in Southeast Missouri. Released Dec. 18, the new system rated 15,800 nursing homes that ...