What’s happening: As part of the White House initiative to increase transparency of corporate ownership and operation of nursing facilities, CMS released QSO-23-18-NH, announcing the addition of ownership information to Nursing Home Care Compare.

• CMS identified groups of Medicare-certified nursing facilities linked together by common owners and operators referred to as “affiliated entities.”

How it works: Ownership data, which was published as of June 28, 2023, comes from:  

• The Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) ;  
• The electronic Medicare enrollment system; and 
• National data repository for individual and organization providers who have enrolled or are enrolling in Medicare. 
• Additionally, CMS is publishing the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com. The data will combine inspection, staffing, quality, and other performance metrics across these affiliated entities.

Providers who have questions or updates to their nursing facilities affiliated entity assignment should contact NH_Affiliation_Inquiries@cms.hhs.gov.