CMS released an updated Five-Star Quality Rating Program Technical User’s Guide, effective with the April 2026 refresh. In this update, the long-stay antipsychotic medication quality measure...
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What’s happening: CMS has identified an issue with one of the data files scheduled for the January 28, 2026, Nursing Home Care Compare refresh. As...
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What’s new: The Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Quality Measures (QM) User’s Manual Version v18.0 is now available along with associated files. Key updates to the...
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What’s new: CMS released QSO-25-20-NH on June 18, 2025. The new memo describes updates coming to Nursing Home Care Compare. CMS will change to how...
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Get more stars: ahcancalED offers a comprehensive training for nursing facility administrators and nurse leaders, titled The Five-Star Quality Rating System. This education program reviews the...
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Useful training: ahcancalED’s The Five-Star Quality Rating System is a comprehensive course for nursing facility administrators and nurse leaders that reviews the methodology for the...
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Did you know? ahcancalED offers a comprehensive training for nursing facility administrators and nurse leaders on the Five-Star Quality Rating System. This education program reviews...
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CMS has posted an updated Nursing Home Care Compare Technical Users’ Guide on its Five Star Quality Rating System page. Effective with the January 2025...
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What’s new: On January 18, CMS issued QSO-23-05-NH, which outlines updates to the Nursing Home Care Compare website and Five Star Quality Rating System. The updates...
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Coming up: November 14, 2022 is the deadline to submit Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) staffing data to for July 1 – September 30, 2022. Review...
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QSO-19-08-NH outlined a plan in 2019 to update the five quality measure (QM) rating thresholds on the Nursing Home Compare website every six months. Due to COVID-19,...
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In July, CMS updated the Five-Star Ratings on Care Compare to include staff turnover measures. Six Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) staffing measures now determine Five-Star Staffing ratings....
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CMS revised the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System with the July 2022 Care Compare refresh. It now includes weekend staffing and staff turnover...
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In case you missed it, with the April Care Compare refresh, CMS will increase long term care facility quality measure thresholds by 50 percent of...
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In QSO-19-08-NH issued in March 2019, CMS outlined a plan to update the quality measure (QM) rating thresholds every six months. The initial threshold changes...
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Register now for the March webinars led by Judy Wilhide Brandt to help you better understand how CMS is measuring quality and how your center...
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Join us for a two-part webinar series on March 15-16 led by Judy Wilhide Brandt on quality measures (QM) and the Five-Star Quality Rating System....
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As a reminder, in QSO 21-06-NH, Updates to Nursing Home Compare website and Five Star Quality Rating System, CMS announced that, effective January 27, 2021,...
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On December 4, CMS issued a memo, QSO-21-06-NH on its intentions to update the survey and quality domains of Five-Star with the January 27, 2021 refresh of...
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In September, CMS released Care Compare on Medicare.gov, which streamlines the eight original health care compare tools, including Nursing Home Compare. As of December 1, the original...
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On October 28 Nursing Home Compare and Five-Star ratings were updated. Survey ratings did not change as traditional nursing home surveys have not yet resumed...
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On April 24, 2020, CMS released a memo (QSO-20-28-NH) with updates on Nursing Home Compare (NHC), Five Star, public staffing information, and a list of...
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Nursing Home Compare (NHC) was updated on January 29 with quality measure data. The latest update also includes Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) staffing data for 2019-Q3....
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[caption id="attachment_102017" align="alignright" width="331"] David Gifford, MD, AHCA Senior Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs[/caption] Responding to the changes in the Five-Star ratings on...
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Changes to the Five-Star rating system on Nursing Home Compare went live on April 24. The changes reflect several significant updates to all three components...
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To help you prepare for the forthcoming changes to the new Five-Star ratings that will be published on the Nursing Home Compare (NHC) website later...
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AHCA will host a webinar on Monday, April 8 on the new Five-Star Rating System changes that will be published on Nursing Home Compare later this month. As...
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Numerous media outlets have covered the news that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has changed the Five-Star ratings for thousands of nursing...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the Nursing Home Compare (NHC) website with staffing data from the first quarter of 2018....
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[caption id="attachment_91408" align="alignright" width="300"] Click to enlarge image[/caption] Nursing Home Compare is currently displaying an icon (see image) meant to signal the nursing home has reported...
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On April 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published new Five-Star ratings that include Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) staffing data on its Nursing...
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On April 6 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued guidance on the transition to using the Payroll-Based Journal staffing measures on Nursing Home...
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On February 28, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the survey domain methodology of the Five-Star rating system. In the previous...
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Next Thursday, October 27 VHCA-VCAL is hosting an education program to on the Five-Star Rating system. Register today! Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for...
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Do you need to make sense of how the new quality measures affect your Five-Star rating? The October 27 education program, Manage Your Five-Star Rating...
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Do you need to make sense of how the new quality measures affect your Five-Star rating? The October 27 education program, Manage Your Five-Star Rating...
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Register today for Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for Success. Presenter Karolee Alexander, RN, RAC-CT, Director of Reimbursement and Clinical Consulting at Pathway Health...
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Register today for Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for Success. Presenter Karolee Alexander, RN, RAC-CT, Director of Reimbursement and Clinical Consulting at Pathway Health...
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Registration is now open for the October 27 program, Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for Success. Presenter Karolee Alexander, RN, RAC-CT, Director of Reimbursement...
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Mark your calendars for Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for Success, our next monthly education program on October 27. Presenter Karolee Alexander, RN, RAC-CT,...
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Mark your calendars for Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for Success, our next monthly education program on October 27. Presenter Karolee Alexander, RN, RAC-CT,...
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Mark your calendars for Manage Your Five-Star Rating – Strategies for Success, our next monthly education program on October 27. Presenter Karolee Alexander, RN, RAC-CT,...
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AHCA has analyzed the new CMS Five-Star data published on Nursing Home Compare on August 10, 2016. Among VHCA member nursing centers, 79 percent saw...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published new Five-Star rankings on its Nursing Home Compare (NHC) website this week. The ratings reflect new...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has signaled it will not publish new Five-Star rankings on its Nursing Home Compare (NHC) website this...
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Register to participate in the members-only webinar hosted by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) on the changes to the Five-Star quality measures. The webinar...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported last week that starting on July 27, 2016 at 10 am ET the Quality Measure (QM)...
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Join us on Tuesday, July 19 for the Navigating the Changing MDS Landscape program. Presenter Judy Wilhide Brandt, RN, BA, RAC-MT, will update you on...
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Don’t forget to take advantage of the opportunity to review your Five Star Preview Reports, which were made available last month. To access these reports,...
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Accurate MDS coding has never been more important as CMS moves from paying for volume to value. Judy Wilhide Brandt, RN, BA, RAC-MT, will update...
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Accurate MDS coding has never been more important as CMS moves from paying for volume to value. Judy Wilhide Brandt, RN, BA, RAC-MT, will update...
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Accurate MDS coding has never been more important as CMS moves from paying for volume to value. Judy Wilhide Brandt, RN, BA, RAC-MT, will update...
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The CMS Nursing Home Compare website now includes six new quality measures, four short-stay and two long-stay measures. Five of the six new measures (not...
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Nursing centers can now access their new Five-Star Ratings through the CMS QIES system. This report includes a preview of data for each center on...
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On Friday, March 4, AHCA hosted a webinar summarizing the new CMS quality measures that will be added to Nursing Home Compare and the Five-Star...
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