CMS Announces Changes to Five-Star Quality Rating System for Nursing HomesKaren Owen Gibbs
The CMS has toughened the NHC 5-Star Quality Rating System for nursing homes, which provides details online to allow consumers to compare ratings for facilities within a given state. The changes include the addition of two quality measures for antipsychotic medication use; raised expectations; adju...
becauseofresourceconstraints.In 2008,CMSintroducedaFive-Star QualityRatingSystemthatdraws ontheSFFmethodologytorank homesfromonetofivestars.GAO assessedCMS’sSFFmethodology, applieditonanationwidebasis usingstatisticalscoringthresholds, andadoptedseveralrefinementsto themethodology.Usingthis approach,GAOdetermined(1)...
Deadline Quickly Approaching for NY Nursing Homes and Owners/Operators Regarding CMS Star-Rating Postings Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLPon12/20/2024 Effective as of December 26, 2024, each nursing home facility (“Facility”) in New York State will be required to post its overall Centers...
The agency also finalized key changes to the star rating system, most notably the introduction of a health equity index in 2027 that will gauge how plans fare in improving social risk factors for beneficiaries. UPDATED 11:55 a.m. ET Dec. 23 ...
off-site audits to determine whether nursing homes are accurately assessing and coding individuals with a schizophrenia diagnosis. The use of antipsychotic medications among nursing home residents is an indicator of nursing home quality and used in a nursing home’s Five-Star rating; however, it exc...
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Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Part C and Part D Quality Rating Systems.The rule makes a series of temporary changes to change how CMS assesses quality for Part C and Part D plans. Typically, these plans are evaluated based on their scores on a series of Healthcare Effecti...
Starting in 2015, changes will be made to the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System to help improve consumer information about the quality of individualnursing homes. These improvements will include nationwide focused survey inspections to enable better verification of both the staffing and quali...
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