The 2024 staffing rule may not be carried out until 2034
What the document says“The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not, during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this section and ending September 30, 2034, implement, administer, or enforce the amendments made by the provisions of the final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 10, 2024”
The section bars the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing, administering or enforcing, from enactment through September 30, 2034, the changes made by the final rule published May 10, 2024 titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting to sections 483.5 and 483.35 of title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
What the document actually says“The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not, during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this section and ending September 30, 2034, implement, administer, or enforce the amendments made by the provisions of the final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 10, 2024”
The health secretary may not carry out a 2024 rule. That bar runs from this law to September 30, 2034.
It covers putting the rule in place and enforcing it. Two spots in the rules are named. Those rules are not indexed here.
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