More than 6 years later, GAO still looking for CMS to act on assisted living recommendation

McKnight’s Senior Living March 19, 2024
Lois A. Bowers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services still has not taken action on a recommendation made by the US Government Accountability Office in a January 2018 report on assisted living, the GAO said in a report issued last week.

In a footnote in a report issued Thursday about Medicaid managed care, the independent, nonpartisan agency noted that “In 2018, we recommended that CMS establish standard Medicaid reporting requirements for all states to annually report key information on critical incidents. The agency agreed with the recommendation, but had not taken action to address it as of January 2024.”

The 2018 recommendation referred to was contained in a report titled “Medicaid Assisted Living Services: Improved Federal Oversight of Beneficiary Health and Welfare...

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