Universal Settlement Action Items
Last week the State of New York officially declared that facilities’ response to the Universal Settlement of Nursing Home Rate Appeals and Litigation (“the Settlement”) is “universal” and the State is prepared to execute the Agreement, pending Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approval. Discussions are now underway with CMS to obtain their final approval of the Settlement, and we expect an announcement very soon.
There are three time sensitive issues on which we urge member action:
- Please complete, sign, scan and e-mail a Form W-9 (available for download here) for your facility to Michael Paulsen at Hinman Straub (mpaulsen@hinmanstraub.com) by Feb. 16th.
- For those who have not yet done so, we ask that you complete a brief survey available here indicating whether your home has had a prior owner. The survey should take only a few moments of your time.
- We remind homes that are eligible to apply for the Special Appeals Funding process to do so by returning a completed election form to Universal Settlement Trusteee Hinman Straub by Feb. 29th.
More detail on each issue is available in a memo distributed to members on Feb. 8th and available here.
Contact: Darius Kirstein, dkirstein@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8841 or Dan Heim, dheim@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8383 ext. 128