GAO chides CMS over delayed nursing home reporting, antipsychotic transparency
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 23, 2023
Some Care Compare information on nursing homes is too old and some is too hard to understand, reported a government watchdog.
More states moving to add extra layers of nursing home scrutiny
By
Joe Bush
Nov 15, 2022
The debut of the most recent new state dashboard shows the lengths states are going to in order to increase transparency into nursing home quality and operations.
Nursing homes would report medical director data to CMS under new bill
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2022
A bipartisan bill would require nursing homes to report their medical directors’ information to CMS, and CMS to publish it on the Care Compare tool.
CMS shares LTC booster data; coverage among residents meets national average
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 10, 2022
Nursing home booster vaccination data is now available on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website as part of CMS’s effort to help increase facility vaccination coverage, the agency said Wednesday.
Nursing home complaint investigations create clearer quality picture: study
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2023
Researchers have found that a new, complaint-focused quality metric would better represent the needs of residents and family consumers searching nursing home ratings.
In the quest for Medicare patients, Yelp stars outshine Care Compare
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Sep 22, 2023
More consumers are turning to social media review platforms to help choose a nursing home for family members, but the reviews can be skewed by anecdotal and personal evidence, a new study shows.
CMS begins publicizing disputed nursing home deficiencies
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 26, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday started showing whether facilities were formally disputing cited deficiencies.
Pressure injury study hits at ‘misleading’ self-reported nursing home data
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 12, 2022
Nursing home operators are underreporting the number of pressure injuries in Medicare residents by as much as 40%, said University of Chicago researchers, who have joined a push for less provider-reported...
Widening data pool dangerously ‘chumming the waters’ in nursing home lawsuits
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 23, 2023
A broader public data pool that captures practices of individual nursing homes and patterns across portfolios is being used out of context and further complicating the legal landscape for operators, experts...
Care Compare promotes selfish provider goals when it comes to admission and retention policies, researchers...
By
Joe Bush
Oct 05, 2022
The system used to rate nursing homes’ quality needs to be given more oversight in order to discourage admission practices providers employ to pump up their ratings, said authors of a research letter...