Nursing homes are urged to verify rosters and associated MDS data that will be used to establish July 2020 CMI without delay.

Data will be used to make Medicaid rate adjustments for homes outside of New York City.

Providers asked to provide documentation if contacted.

Nursing homes should verify that the correct MDS assessment is matched to each resident in house on Jan. 29, 2020.

Nursing homes have until Nov. 27^th to file MDS data corrections with CMS and until Dec. 31^st to verify that residents are matched to the correct assessment.

Medicaid compliance certification procedure and timing revised.

Initiative seeks to ensure that Medicaid is payer of last resort.

DOH shares that a preliminary decision suggests COVID-19 funding is not subject to the cash receipts assessment and indicates that it intends to combine roster verification for July 2020 and January 2021 rates into a single process.