The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a memo, QSO-25-20-NH, announcing updates to Nursing Home Compare. The updates include:
- Posting aggregated performance data for nursing home chains.
- Removing the oldest surveys from the health inspection rating calculation.
- Updating the long-stay antipsychotic quality measure assessing the number of long-stay residents receiving antipsychotic medications to include Medicare and Medicaid claims and encounter data.
- Removing the resident and staff COVID-19 vaccination measures.
