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April 27, 2016
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CMS
Adds New Quality Measures to Nursing Home Compare
Largest
addition of quality measures to Nursing Home Compare since 2003
Today, the Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services (CMS) added six new quality measures to its
consumer-based Nursing
Home Compare website (https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html).
Three of these six new quality measures are based on Medicare-claims data
submitted by hospitals, which is significant because this is the first time CMS
is including quality measures that are not based solely on data that are
self-reported by nursing homes. These three quality measures measure the rate
of rehospitalization, emergency room use, and community discharge among nursing
home residents. They include:
- Percentage of short-stay residents who were
successfully discharged to the community (Medicare claims- and MDS-based)
- Percentage of short-stay residents who have had an
outpatient emergency department visit (Medicare claims- and MDS-based)
- Percentage of short-stay residents who were
re-hospitalized after a nursing home admission (Medicare claims- and
MDS-based)
- Percentage of short-stay residents who made
improvements in function (MDS-based)
- Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to move
independently worsened (MDS-based)
- Percentage of long-stay residents who received an
antianxiety or hypnotic medication (MDS-based)
“These new quality measures broaden
the set of quality measures already on the site so that patients, their family
members, and caregivers have more meaningful information when they consider
facilities,” said CMS Deputy Administrator and Chief Medical Officer
Patrick Conway, M.D., MSc.
With today’s quality measure
updates, CMS is nearly doubling the number of short-stay measures, which
reflect care provided to residents who are in the nursing home for 100 days or
less, on Nursing Home Compare. CMS is also providing information about
key short-stay outcomes, including the percentage of residents who are
successfully discharged and the rate of activities of daily life (ADL)
improvement among short-stay residents.
Beginning in July 2016, CMS will
incorporate all of these measures, except for the antianxiety/hypnotic
medication measure, into the calculation of the Nursing Home Five-Star
Quality Ratings. CMS is not incorporating the
antianxiety/hypnotic medication measure because it has been difficult to
determine appropriate nursing home benchmarks for the acceptable use of these
medications.
Nursing Home Compare is the
agency’s public information website that provides information on how well
Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes provide care to their residents.
With today’s update, it now reports information on 24 quality measures for
15,655 nursing home providers on Nursing Home Compare.
For more information on today’s
announcement, please visit here: https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2016-Fact-sheets-items/2016-04-27.html
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