CMS Implements Harsher Penalties for Nursing Homes Amid Pandemic
June 2, 2020
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicies (CMS) is implementing stiffer penalties for nursing homes which are repeatedly caught violating infection control protocol, FierceHealthcare reports.
According to the report, as of May 24, some 26,000 COVID-19 deaths were individuals in nursing homes.
“In some states, nursing home deaths may be over 40 percent of their total deaths,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma told reporters.
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