Access:
CMS Issues Nursing Home Visitation Guidance
Published on Fri Jan 21, 2022
Could new guidance affect access to patients? As Omicron surges, worries about access are resurfacing. Background: When COVID-19 began, hospice and home health agencies reported difficulties — sometimes extreme — gaining access to their patients in skilled nursing and other facilities. As the pandemic wore on, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance and other factors broke down most of [...]