CMS announces 6 new Quality Measures for Nursing Home Compare
CMS announced the addition of six new Quality Measures that will be added to Nursing Home Compare in an Open Door Forum call today. The new Quality Measures will be publicly available on Nursing Home...
View ArticleCMS S&C Nursing Home Action Plan – Strategy 1
As we posted last week, CMS released the Survey and Certification group’s FY2016-FY2017 Nursing Home Action Plan which included five actionable strategies that mean more pressure on providers to...
View ArticleTransition to PBJ Staffing Measures on Nursing Home Compare
The transition to using Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) data for Nursing Home Compare and the Five Star Quality Rating is finally upon us. In a new QSO memo dated April 6, 2018, the Centers for Medicare...
View ArticleNHC Five-Star Technical Guide – May 2018
In case you missed it, the Design for Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users’ Guide was updated in May. This revision follows updates from February related to the Survey...
View ArticleNursing Home Compare Star Ratings Changing in April
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its next set of updates to Nursing Home Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System that will be arriving in April 2019. Changes...
View ArticleApril 2019 Nursing Home Compare & Five Star Changes
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a press release, “CMS Improving Nursing Home Compare in April 2019” and alongside that, issued a new QSO memo that details all...
View ArticleApril 2019 Five-Star Quality Rating System Technical Guide
Related to its announcement about changes to Nursing Home Compare and the Five Star Quality Rating System coming next month, the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) has released a new...
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Changes Coming to Your Five-Star Quality Rating
2021 has arrived after a long and challenging year for post-acute/ long-term care providers. While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made multiple adjustments to survey and...
View ArticleQuality Measure Rating Thresholds Changing on Care Compare
In a sign that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is getting back to “normal” after a focus on COVID-19 everything for the past couple years, the Agency made an announcement today...
View ArticleQuality Measure Thresholds Increasing Soon
Per a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Post-Acute Care Quality Reporting Programs email update (9/21/2022): Quality Measure Rating Threshold Changes with the October 2022 Refresh In...
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