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Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday. en-us https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fines-fell-565-deficiencies-rose https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fines-fell-565-deficiencies-rose Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT A Long Term Care Community Coalition report finds nursing home fines fell 56.5% between 2022 and 2024 even as cited deficiencies rose, with 49 states imposing f… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/quality-is-now-margin-story https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/quality-is-now-margin-story Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT A CLA report finds national SNF median occupancy reached 84.8% in 2025, but growth has slowed to 1.9 points from 6.3 in 2024, and operating margins climb fro… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/genesis-heads-tuesday-exit-191 https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/genesis-heads-tuesday-exit-191 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Genesis HealthCare's roughly $1 billion bankruptcy sale is set to be signed today, with the bankruptcy court asked to confirm the Chapter 11 exit on Tuesday.… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/massachusetts-raises-staffing-penalty-8 https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/massachusetts-raises-staffing-penalty-8 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Massachusetts' Medicaid program now cuts payment rates 8% for nursing homes staffing below 3.00 hours per resident per day, up from penalties of 0.5% to 3%, … https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/ai-fall-monitoring-gets-operatorreported https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/ai-fall-monitoring-gets-operatorreported Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Signature HealthCARE says its AI fall-monitoring system cut falls 80% across 20 buildings, and Trilogy Health Services says chest-worn monitors on about 300 … https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cascadia-rolls-up-oregon-sabers https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cascadia-rolls-up-oregon-sabers Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Cascadia Healthcare closed on 22 Avamere facilities on October 1 and has agreed to buy 14 Ohana Ventures and 11 Sapphire Health homes, which will make it Ore… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/outofstate-chains-buy-into-massachusetts https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/outofstate-chains-buy-into-massachusetts Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT A Boston Globe Spotlight investigation, reported by Skilled Nursing News, found that out-of-state chains grew from 12 Massachusetts nursing homes in 2019 to … https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/us-nursing-home-supply-falls https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/us-nursing-home-supply-falls Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT CMS-certified nursing homes have dropped from 15,648 in 2015 to under 14,748 today — a 5% national capacity decline since 2019 that KFF Health News tied to u… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-squeezes-staffing-pipeline-while https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-squeezes-staffing-pipeline-while Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT This week's post-acute news pulls in two directions at once. Wisconsin operators told Skilled Nursing News that Trump administration immigration moves — a ne… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/965home-randomized-trial-just-put https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/965home-randomized-trial-just-put Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Nursing homes assigned to give residents and staff the recombinant quadrivalent influenza vaccine recorded confirmed influenza outbreaks in 36.6% of building… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/enforcement-pulled-back-three-fronts https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/enforcement-pulled-back-three-fronts Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT A watchdog analysis of CMS enforcement data published last week found that nursing home fines fell 55% between 2022 and 2024 even as health citations rose 12… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/pepper-came-back-this-week https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/pepper-came-back-this-week Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Skilled nursing PEPPER reports were published again this week, restoring after a three-year dormancy the facility-level billing-outlier report that CMS and i… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicare-is-buying-technology-conditions https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicare-is-buying-technology-conditions Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT CMS moved on Tuesday to expand its ACCESS Model with new payment tracks for heart failure and COPD, extending remote monitoring and connected-device reimburs… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/consumer-groups-say-lighttouch-survey https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/consumer-groups-say-lighttouch-survey Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT One week into the Risk-Based Survey, the Center for Medicare Advocacy is arguing the shortened inspection violates the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act, and Cons… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-just-split-nursing-home https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-just-split-nursing-home Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT The Risk-Based Survey went live nationwide on September 8, creating for the first time a formal two-tier inspection regime: roughly one in eight nursing home… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/antipsychotic-oversight-is-becoming-payment https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/antipsychotic-oversight-is-becoming-payment Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two stories this week put a price on problems operators usually treat as clinical or cultural. Skilled Nursing News reports that the behavioral health pressu… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-is-about-publish-list https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-is-about-publish-list Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT The risk-based survey process goes live nationwide on Monday, September 8, and CMS will begin posting the qualifying facility list to Care Compare on Septemb… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/comment-window-closes-today-cmss https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/comment-window-closes-today-cmss Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT At 5:00 p.m. Eastern today, the public comment period closes on a CMS proposal that would let the agency revoke Medicare enrollment retroactively — and, in s… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/oversight-gets-specific-riskbased-surveys https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/oversight-gets-specific-riskbased-surveys Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT The week closed with federal oversight moving from concept to mechanics. CMS officials spent Wednesday defending the new Risk-Based Survey as a performance t… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/california-is-preparing-push-3500 https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/california-is-preparing-push-3500 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Health Net is terminating its CalAIM assisted living benefit at the end of the year, and provider contracts start unwinding on October 7. Advocates say the o… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-redraws-snf-map-rural https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-redraws-snf-map-rural Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two federal moves are quietly re-segmenting the skilled nursing market. A Federal Register notice revealed that CMS's nurse staffing incentive campaign will … https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-moves-two-fronts-once https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-moves-two-fronts-once Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two federal developments landed within hours of each other this week, and they pull in opposite directions. CMS published the Federal Register notice that op… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/compliance-bill-comes-due-first https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/compliance-bill-comes-due-first Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two stories this week put hard numbers behind pressures operators have been bracing for all year. The first results from CMS's new MDS data validation audits… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/denial-is-now-number-insurers https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/denial-is-now-number-insurers Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT KFF's analysis of the first payer-level prior authorization data CMS required insurers to publish shows standard requests were denied 12% of the time in Medi… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/superbug-salary-survey-are-same https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/superbug-salary-survey-are-same Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT CDC's provisional surveillance through the week ending July 25 put Candida auris at 3,437 clinical cases across 27 states this year, and health officials are… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-is-about-sort-industry https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-is-about-sort-industry Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Risk-Based Surveys go live nationally on September 8, and CMS expects roughly 12% of nursing homes to earn the lighter-touch treatment and a high-performer i… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/reit-capital-floods-back-into https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/reit-capital-floods-back-into Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two currents dominated the weekend's news. On the capital side, CareTrust REIT posted a record $900 million second-quarter deployment while American Healthca… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/consolidation-is-concentrating-emptiest-thinneststaffed https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/consolidation-is-concentrating-emptiest-thinneststaffed Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT This week's transaction news pointed at one state. PACS deployed $191 million in the first half of the year and named density in Texas as the organizing logi… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/two-oversight-regimes-tighten-once https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/two-oversight-regimes-tighten-once Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT CMS begins its national Risk-Based Survey rollout on September 8, and the debate over who benefits reached local press this week as operators and resident ad… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/california-priced-understaffing-15-million https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/california-priced-understaffing-15-million Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured a $15 million Medi-Cal settlement from Sweetwater Care, a 17-facility skilled nursing chain that state staffing… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-hands-snfs-24-raise https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-hands-snfs-24-raise Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT The FY 2027 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System final rule landed Wednesday afternoon, and the headline number — a 2.4% net rate update worth… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-is-moving-two-bars https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-is-moving-two-bars Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Care Compare is scheduled to refresh today with recalibrated quality measure thresholds, which McKnight's reports may leave providers with a lower rating des… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/capital-comes-looking-skilled-nursing https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/capital-comes-looking-skilled-nursing Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two money stories bookend the weekend. In Washington, a new bill would finally send federal EHR adoption dollars to post-acute care — seventeen years after h… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicaids-money-squeeze-moves-from https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicaids-money-squeeze-moves-from Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT The week's dominant story is financial. CMS moved to codify strict limits on how states use provider taxes to draw down federal Medicaid dollars — a change r… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/1-billion-medicaid-freeze-stillchurning https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/1-billion-medicaid-freeze-stillchurning Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two forces defined the past two days in post-acute care, and both land on cash flow. The federal government deferred more than $1 billion in Medicaid payment… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fine-print-arrives-most-nursing https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fine-print-arrives-most-nursing Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT The weekend brought the implementation details behind last Thursday's risk-based survey announcement — and they sharpen the story considerably. Eligibility s… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-rewires-nursing-home-inspections https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-rewires-nursing-home-inspections Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT CMS confirmed this week that it will move nursing home surveys to a nationwide risk-based model, concentrating inspector attention on the lowest-rated facili… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/workforce-cliff-gets-date-wound https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/workforce-cliff-gets-date-wound Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two stories dominate the mid-July news cycle, and both come with hard numbers attached. Nursing home operators in Florida and beyond are mounting an organize… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-rewrites-snf-rulebook-both https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-rewrites-snf-rulebook-both Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two federal signals dominated the weekend. CMS is expected to release a sweeping healthcare deregulation proposed rule as early as August, and nursing home g… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/staffing-enforcement-hardens-dollars-consolidation https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/staffing-enforcement-hardens-dollars-consolidation Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two forces defined the post-acute week. State regulators moved from warnings to checks: New York fined 25 nursing homes another $4.2 million for staffing vio… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-moves-fast-track-provider https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-moves-fast-track-provider Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT This edition splits into two clear lanes. On enforcement, CMS proposed sweeping new authority to revoke Medicare enrollment — including for providers located… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/squeeze-tightens-demand-climbs-beds https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/squeeze-tightens-demand-climbs-beds Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT The long-forecast demographic wave is now arriving. As the oldest Baby Boomers turn 80, the number of Americans needing daily help is climbing while the numb… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-tightens-screws-faster-expulsions https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-tightens-screws-faster-expulsions Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two enforcement fronts opened this week. On Wednesday, CMS proposed rules that would let regulators fine and expel noncompliant Medicare providers more easil… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/workforce-cliff-meets-consolidation-wave https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/workforce-cliff-meets-consolidation-wave Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two forces defined the post-acute news cycle over the past 48 hours, and they pull in opposite directions. On one side, operators are bracing for a sudden la… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/labor-squeeze-tightens-three-sides https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/labor-squeeze-tightens-three-sides Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The weekend's post-acute news converged on one pressure point: the people who do the work. The Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to en… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/money-gets-tighter-both-ends https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/money-gets-tighter-both-ends Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT This week's post-acute news points in one direction: financial gravity. Skilled Nursing News reported that nursing home spending reached a record $31 billion… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/infection-control-holds-top-citation https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/infection-control-holds-top-citation Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The past few days reinforced a pattern operators know all too well: infection prevention remains the single most-cited nursing home deficiency in 2026, carri… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-turns-up-heat-staffing https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-turns-up-heat-staffing Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two regulatory threads opened the week, both pointing at the same pressure point: how nursing homes are staffed and paid. A new HHS Office of Inspector Gener… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/infection-control-tops-citation-list https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/infection-control-tops-citation-list Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two threads dominated post-acute care this week. Federal survey data confirmed that infection prevention deficiencies remain the single most-cited nursing ho… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicare-advantage-pressure-hardens-washington https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicare-advantage-pressure-hardens-washington Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The week's defining theme is financial: MedPAC used its June report to warn Congress that Medicare Advantage growth is eroding the economics of post-acute ca… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-loosens-labor-floor-tightens https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-loosens-labor-floor-tightens Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two federal moves this week pull skilled nursing in opposite directions. CMS has rescinded the federal nursing home staffing minimums, including the 24-hour … https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-pulls-staffing-floor-statehouses https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-pulls-staffing-floor-statehouses Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The biggest regulatory event of the year for skilled nursing landed this week: the federal minimum staffing mandate has been rescinded, taking the 24/7 regis… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fy2027-payment-squeeze-lands-facilities https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fy2027-payment-squeeze-lands-facilities Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The dominant theme this week is financial pressure colliding with operational fragility. McKnight's reports that nursing homes in roughly half of all US mark… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/record-labor-costs-meet-shrinking https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/record-labor-costs-meet-shrinking Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The FY2027 SNF payment debate sharpened this week as McKnight's reported that nursing homes in roughly half of all US markets could watch their proposed Medi… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fy-2027-comment-window-closes https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/fy-2027-comment-window-closes Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Today marks the deadline for industry comments on the proposed FY 2027 SNF Prospective Payment System rule, and the nursing home sector is fighting a two-fro… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-opens-two-fronts-snf https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-opens-two-fronts-snf Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two CMS actions converge this week to squeeze skilled nursing facility margins from both sides of the ledger. A proposed rule published May 22 would cap Medi… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-tightens-screws-pdpm-coding https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-tightens-screws-pdpm-coding Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two forces are reshaping the skilled nursing landscape this week. CMS released its FY 2027 proposed payment rule with a headline 2.4% rate increase — but the… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicaid-payment-caps-pdpm-scrutiny https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/medicaid-payment-caps-pdpm-scrutiny Wed, 27 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two major CMS actions landed in the same week, creating a dual-front reimbursement challenge for skilled nursing operators. A proposed rule would cap Medicai… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-puts-pdpm-coding-under https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-puts-pdpm-coding-under Mon, 25 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two forces are reshaping the skilled nursing landscape this week. CMS is signaling that it will scrutinize PDPM coding patterns that have sent malnutrition d… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-tightens-revenue-screws-skilled https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/washington-tightens-revenue-screws-skilled Fri, 22 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two moves from Washington this week signal a harder operating environment for skilled nursing facilities that depend on government payers. CMS proposed its b… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/nearly-1-billion-snf-deals https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/nearly-1-billion-snf-deals Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT CareTrust REIT has closed roughly $990 million in skilled nursing transactions year-to-date, with $865 million landing since early April alone. Meanwhile, CM… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-tightens-margin-vise-pdpm https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-tightens-margin-vise-pdpm Fri, 15 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two CMS actions this week send distinct but converging signals to the skilled nursing sector. The agency is warning that PDPM coding patterns have drifted be… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-takes-aim-turnover-reporting https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-takes-aim-turnover-reporting Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Two parallel forces are reshaping the SNF regulatory landscape this week. CMS is signaling it may tighten how nursing facilities report staff turnover — clos… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/senior-care-bankruptcies-surge-states https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/senior-care-bankruptcies-surge-states Sun, 10 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Healthcare bankruptcy filings jumped 33% in the first quarter of 2026, with senior care and outpatient providers driving two-thirds of all cases. At the same… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-proposes-888-million-snf https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/cms-proposes-888-million-snf Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT The FY 2027 SNF Proposed Rule lands with a net 2.4% payment increase, but the real story is the $208 million in Value-Based Purchasing reductions that will o… https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/staffing-mandate-isnt-dead-waiting https://rehinged.ai/market-pulse/staffing-mandate-isnt-dead-waiting Sun, 03 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT Former CMS COO Jonathan Blum warned this week that a version of the nursing home staffing mandate could return after the November elections, keeping 2,007 un…