CMS Issues Proposed Rules to Govern LTC Facility Agreements with Medicare Hospices

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed regulation (Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Requirements for Long Term Care Facilities; Hospice Services — CMS-3149-P) that imposes a new requirement for a written agreement between Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and Medicaid nursing facilities (NFs) that arrange for the provision of hospice care…