02/05/2026

States Urge CMS to Revisit Nursing Home Staffing Rule, Focus on For-Profit Providers

Attorneys general in eighteen states have asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reconsider its recent repeal of the federal nursing home staffing mandate and instead advance a narrower rule aimed at for-profit operators. In formal comments submitted this week, the group argued that minimum staffing standards remain important for resident safety but should apply only to for-profit nursing homes with complex ownership, related-party transactions, or private equity ties, asserting that nonprofit and government-owned homes generally maintain higher staffing levels without the same financial incentives for self-dealing.

Full coverage is available from McKnight’s in its original reporting on the issue.