02/28/2023
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"The staffing ratio issue, which Senator Cassidy and Senator King and probably everybody around this table could talk about, from a CMS standpoint is a big issue, and I think I found a solution."
"low Medicaid reimbursement rates often leave nursing homes with no choice but to close their doors."
"Thank you and Senator Murkowski for introducing the CHARGE Act, which would reinstate the waiver for bed-hold occupancy requirements."
"So for a number of reasons, in Montana, not having anything to do with CMS, we have, I think, lost 11 rest homes."