On January 18, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Memorandum to all state survey agency directors addressing erroneous schizophrenia coding and increased transparency of ...

Medicare’s Care Compare site did not accurately reflect nursing home deficiencies in two-thirds of listings reviewed by a federal watchdog agency, a finding that implies more than 10,000 health, life ...

Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey is calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to provide more accurate information to the public on its Medicare.gov Nursing Home Compare website. Ratings on the ...

Care Compare aims to give Medicare patients and family caregivers a user-friendly online tool to make informed decisions about healthcare based on location, cost, quality of care, volume of services, ...

Ohio is among the worst-ranked states when it comes to Medicare-certified nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses a five-star rating system to measure individual facilities.

Skilled nursing providers could still be negatively impacted despite SNF Quality Reporting Program data being frozen on the Nursing Home Compare site through 2022, a leading expert warned. “It’s easy ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has begun posting nursing home affiliations on Nursing Home Care Compare. CMS’ goal in publishing the information is to help consumers more easily ...

The five-star Nursing Home Compare rating system, created by the federal government to help consumers shop for a nursing home, would be utilized to take punitive action against consistently ...

The Biden administration today called for nursing homes to provide a complete picture of their owners and operators, proposing a new federal rule central to the president’s plans to improve the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background:The safety and quality of care provided to nursing home residents is a significant concern. Little is known whether fostering ...