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Nursing Home Care Compare
Nursing Home Care Compare
On June 28, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made additional ownership data including names of affiliated owners for the first time on Nursing Home Care Compare. Aggregate data on the safety, staffing, and quality of groups of nursing homes sharing ownership/operatorship is also now available on data.cms.gov, part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing initiative to increase the transparency of corporate ownership and operation of nursing homes.
In addition to posting affiliated ownership info, the release included the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.gov, which aggregates safety, staffing, and quality performance metrics across affiliated entities. This will increase the transparency of nursing home safety and quality data among nursing homes with shared ownership and operatorship structures. This information can also be used by states to gain more information about prospective owners and operators of nursing homes prior to certification of new nursing homes and during change of ownership requests.
This is the first time this information is published and welcomed feedback from users and stakeholders on recommendations for how to improve the utility of the data posted can be sent to NH_Affiliation_Inquiries@cms.hhs.gov.
Read more about Insufficient Staffing in Nursing Facilities and its Impact on Providing Quality Care
Read more about Insufficient Staffing in Nursing Facilities and its Impact on Providing Quality Care
As of June 2023, virtually all nursing facilities meet current staffing requirements (0.3 HPRD) and most would meet requirements of up to 3.0 HPRD (hours per resident day), but if the new staffing requirements are 4.0 or greater, most facilities would need to hire new staff to comply.
Ever wonder what the difference is between the PHQ-9 and the new PHQ2-9? Well, wonder no more. Select the link at the top to find out the difference and how this applies to resident care.
Telehealth Services — Revised
Telehealth Services — Revised
From the Medicare Learning Network (MLN)
From the Medicare Learning Network (MLN)
Learn what’s changed:
Updated information on:
End of the COVID-19 public health emergency
CY 2023 and telehealth policies
Added information on:
G-codes
Consent for care management and virtual communication services
NOTE: CMS changed this link. If you previously bookmarked it, you may wish to update your link.
Release of Second Version of the Standardized Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol
Release of Second Version of the Standardized Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol
The National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel has released the second version of its Standardized Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol - abbreviated as "SPIPP" (pronounced S – PIP). The SPIPP is a shortened checklist of preventive actions to implement at the bedside, adapted from the 2019 Guidelines on pressure injury prevention.
The entire SPIPP 2.0 can be downloaded for free on NPIAP's website.
Facilities Must Update ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes by Oct. 1, 2023
Facilities Must Update ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes by Oct. 1, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the revised ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for fiscal year 2024, which will become effective Oct. 1, 2023. Review the diagnosis codes for residents who reside in the facility through Oct. 1 to convert existing codes to the updated codes. The FY 2024 Conversion Table can be reviewed on CMS's 2024 ICD-10-CM webpage under the Downloads section to look up diagnosis codes and identify the new codes.
The conversion table is an Excel spreadsheet with the effective date listed in column B. These codes can be sorted using the Sort & Filter function of Excel.
Instructions:
Highlight column B at the top of the spreadsheet and click the Sort & Filter button in the menu.
Find the diagnoses in bold with the 2023 effective date. (4/1/2023 was the effective date for the April 2023 updates.)
ICD-10-CM codes in column A are the codes retiring Sept. 30, 2023, and the ICD-10-CM codes in column C are the codes that are replacing the codes in column A.
Look up the codes from column A in the resident's electronic health record (EHR), resolve the diagnosis code as of Sept. 30, 2023, and add the replacement code into the EHR with an effective date of Oct. 1, 2023.
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