Mass Senior Care and provider members having been at the State House meeting with legislators from across the state to urge their support for quality nursing home care. Closing the Medicaid funding gap would allow facilities to make critically needed investments to enhance resident care, offer competitive staff wages and expand the direct care workforce.

National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and Quality Assurance Performance Improvement will host a call on Tuesday, March 3 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET to discuss the CMS toolkit resources available for nursing home providers.

Massachusetts Senior Care Association is excited to participate in the upcoming observance of National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW), which will be held May 10-16, 2020.

There are limited spaces left for the March 12th PDPM 6 Months Later: The Massachusetts Experience seminar being held at the Boston Marriott Newton in Newton.

Our national association, the American Health Care Association (AHCA), has provided the following note regarding some claims submitted under PDPM to report information previously missed or that was entered incorrectly in the previous submission, have created problems. This may result in unexpected payment adjustments for the SNF PPS Part A claim, even when the initially submitted claim was paid correctly.

Join your colleagues from across the state at our 2020 Spring Conference & Trade Show on Tuesday, April 28th at the DCU Center in Worcester. This year's conference will feature timely topics, “From PDPM to Five-Star – A 20/20 Perspective” and “Cyber Security: Offense Always Wins, Defense Always Loses”.

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) has announced that the 2020 National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW) Planning Guide and Product Catalog is now available online here.

Mass Senior Care is excited to announce its partnership with Dark Cubed, an innovative cybersecurity SaaS firm located in Alexandria Virginia. Dark Cubed provides enterprise grade automated network monitoring and blocking at a fraction of the price of other solutions.