Updates: NYS Nursing Homes are now required to give visitors a rapid COVID test to self-administer upon arrival at the facility: NYS has sent sufficient supplies to the nursing homes.  If the facility does not provide a rapid test, visitors cannot be required to test...

NEWS ALERT Contact: CMS Media Relations February 3, 2022 Biden-Harris Administration Will Cover Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests Through Medicare CMS Developing Initiative to Enable Access to Eight Free Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests for Medicare Beneficiaries in...

Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage By Susan Jaffe  JANUARY 28, 2022, Kaiser Health News REPUBLISH THIS STORY (ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES) A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against...