Please ask your State Representative and Senator to support Mass Senior Care’s FY2025 Nursing Facility Budget Proposal, which would fund vital workforce investments of $128 million in FY2025.

Member Update: Reminder: For Facilities Billing for SUD Rate Add-Ons Signed Attestation Form is Due March 12th; DPH Monthly Calls; DPH Guidance on Group A Streptococcal Clusters in Long-term Care Facilities

Member Update: Fiscal 2024 Tax Collections Continue Downward Trend in February 2024; MassHealth Webinars on How to Paper Bill for Providers Impacted by the Change Healthcare Cyberattack; CDC Updates Respiratory Virus Guidance; Paxlovid Emergency Use Authorization Expires on March 8; Healey-Driscoll Administration Announces Expansion of Medicare Savings Program for Older Adults

Member Update: HHS Issues Statement Regarding the Cyberattack on Change Healthcare – New Billing Flexibilities

Member Update: Reminder: Medicaid Alternative Billing Procedures for NFs who may be Impacted by the Change Healthcare Cyberattack

Member Update: Medicaid Alternative Billing Procedures for NFs who may be Impacted by the Change Healthcare Cyberattack

National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW) will take place from Sunday, May 12 to Saturday, May 18, 2024.

On March 29, 2023, Governor Healey signed an authorization to continue to allow nursing practice by graduates and students in their last semester of nursing education programs in accordance with guidance from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (BORN) until March 31, 2024.

Per Mass General Laws Chapter 111, section 71C and 105 CMR 150.028 Dementia Special Care Units require all nursing facilities that advertise or hold themselves out to the public as a provider of specialized care to persons with dementia must file a disclosure statement with the Department of Public Health by March 1st each year.