CMS adds hospital Medicare claims data to quality measures for nursing homes
For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding Medicare claims data submitted by hospitals to quality measures posted on its consumer-based website, Nursing Home Compare.
Six new quality measures are being added, CMS announced Wednesday, the largest addition since 2003.
This is significant, CMS said, because it's the first time the agency is including quality measures not based solely on self-reported data from nursing homes.