SF 508: Requiring joint training sessions for nursing home inspectors and nursing facilities related to skilled nursing and therapy services

What it does

This bill requires the department of health and human services to provide at least one joint training session for nursing facility inspectors and nursing facilities related to the settlement agreement approved by the court on January 1, 2013, in Jimmo v. Sebelius, No. 5:11-CV-17 (D. Vt.). The settlement agreement clarifies the policy of the federal centers for Medicare and Medicaid of the United States department of health and human services that coverage of skilled nursing and therapy in a skilled nursing facility, a home health setting, or an outpatient therapy setting relies on a beneficiary’s need for skilled care, not the beneficiary’s potential for improvement.

Senate subcommittee · named January 15, 2026

• Sen. Dan Zumbach (R) · dan.zumbach@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Tom Shipley (R) · tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Thomas Townsend (D) · thomas.townsend@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 1 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council

In plain words

1. March 4, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the State Government committee
2. March 11, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Rozenboom, Schultz and Staed
3. January 15, 2026Senate subcommittee named: Zumbach, Shipley and Townsend