Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Due to the Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) quarterly deadline, the iQIES Service Center is projecting an increase in the volume of calls and emails between now and February 14, 2023.  Live phone and email support for the Monday, February 14, 2023, PBJ Deadline will be available until Monday, February 14, 2023, at 8:00 PM ET. All files must be…… Continue reading PBJ: Upcoming iQIES Service Center Hold Times   

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The January update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. Appendix B 01302023 (PDF) Changes to Appendix B_January_2023  There are several changes this month (none posted…… Continue reading January 2023 Update: Appendix B – RAI 3.0 User’s Manual  

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare AHRQ has established the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database as a central repository for survey data from nursing homes that have administered the AHRQ patient safety culture survey instrument and choose to submit their survey data to the Nursing Home SOPS® database. This database serves…… Continue reading Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database  

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you love data and analyzing data, the last couple of days have been a goldmine for you!  January 2023: Data have been refreshed for January 2023. Because of COVID-19 reporting exceptions, the claims-based measures were calculated excluding Q1 and Q2 2020.  For additional information, visit the…… Continue reading Numerous Additional LTC Data Sets Updated

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The View Data link above includes the hours staff are paid to work each day, for each facility, aggregated by staff reporting…… Continue reading PBJ (Payroll-Based Journal) Data Sets Updated   

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare These Excel filescontain the full texts (diagnoses, medications and similar items have been removed to protect resident identity and confidentiality) of each nursing home deficiency that Survey Agencies cited on the CMS Form 2567 (Statements of Deficiencies). Due to the size of these files, they are…… Continue reading Full Text of Statements of Deficiencies – Updated January 25, 2023     

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