A federal judge in Texas has tossed a Biden administration policy directing long-term care facilities, including most nursing homes, to change their staffing requirements to include 24-hour licensed nursing services at the facilities.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the final rule in May 2024, citing a need to provide residents with safe and quality care, address insufficient staffing at facilities, and “create a consistent floor to reduce variability in the minimum floor for nurse-to-resident ratios.”
The rule came after COVID-19 ravaged nursing homes during the pandemic.
Soon after the policy was issued, in June 2024, several nursing home-related organizations sued the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the administrator of the CMS. They argued that it “exceeds CMS’s statutory
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