Attn: Nursing Home Providers
REVISED: Updates to Nursing Home Care Compare Staffing and Quality Measures
The Division of Quality Assurance is sending this message as part of our commitment to Collaboration, Innovation, and Quality.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued QSO-25-01-NH.
Memorandum Summary
- Adjustment to Staffing and Quality Measures: CMS will update the staffing level case-mix adjustment methodology and replace some of the Quality Measures (QMs) used on Nursing Home Care Compare, in order to accommodate changes to the Minimum Data Set (MDS). Additionally, CMS will discontinue the CMS-672 form since the section G MDS data, used to populate this form, is being eliminated.
- Penalty for Providers that Fail to Submit Staffing Data: To incentivize providers to submit accurate staffing data, CMS will revise the staffing rating methodology so providers that fail to submit staffing data or submit erroneous data receive the lowest score possible for corresponding staffing turnover measures.
- Revised the timeline for adjusting the quality measures so that all affected quality measures are updated at the same time.
Contact
Questions regarding this information may be submitted to BetterCare@cms.hhs.gov.
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