Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Effective with the January 2023 refresh, CMS will be conducting audits of schizophrenia coding in the Minimum Data Set (MDS) data. Facilities that have coding inaccuracies identified through the schizophrenia MDS audit will have their Quality Measure (QM) ratings adjusted as follows: • The overall QM…… Continue reading Five-Star Technical User’s Guide Updated – January 2023    

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare This document – Five Star Quality Rating System Technical Users’ Guide: State Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table – provides the data for the state-level cut points for the star ratings included in the health inspection domain. Cut points for the staffing ratings and for the…… Continue reading Five-Star State Level Cut Point Table – January 2023    

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The January 2023 refresh of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) data is now available on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC). The data are based on quality assessment data submitted by SNFs to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from…… Continue reading Care Compare January Refresh of SNF QRP Data Now Available   

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Late last week, AHCA/NCAL posted Long Term Care Jobs Report – January 2023.  There are 7 slides. Below are 2 slides excerpted from that report. Please review all slides. “Looking at data from the federal government, nursing homes are still facing historic job losses while other…… Continue reading AHCA/NCAL Long Term Care Jobs Report – January 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare REMINDER: The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the April 2023 refresh. The data contained within the Preview Reports…… Continue reading SNF Provider Preview Reports Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare    You read that correctly.  On January 19, 2023, the OIG posted this 40-page report. Almost every American has been affected in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of 2020, COVID-19 had spread throughout the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly devastating…… Continue reading More Than a Thousand Nursing Homes Reached Infection Rates of 75% or More in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Better Protections Are Needed for Future Emergencies

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on January 23, 2023. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the…… Continue reading Five Star Preview Reports Available on January 23, 2023  

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare January 18, 2023 … As part of the continuing efforts under President Biden’s initiative to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality, and accountability, today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced new actions to reduce…… Continue reading Additional Steps to Strengthen Nursing Home Safety and Transparency

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the April 2023 refresh. The data contained within the Preview Reports are…… Continue reading SNF Provider Preview Reports Now Available 

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Improving Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act) requires the Secretary to specify resource use measures and other measures, on which post-acute care (PAC) providers are required to submit necessary data specified by the Secretary. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has…… Continue reading Draft Measure: COVID-19 Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date