5 QRP Measures Newly Added to Nursing Home Compare

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Julie Apold

Nursing Home Compare has a whole new look after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added five of six Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (QRP) measures to the site on Nov. 28. While the measures are listed under the Quality of Resident Care tab with the other measures of short-stay quality, they are not used to calculate a Skilled Nursing Facility’s Quality star rating. The newly reported measures include:                 

                                 

• % of residents or patients with pressure ulcers that are new or worsened (short stay) (MDS data)
• Application of % of long-term care hospital patients with an admission and discharge functional assessment and a care plan that addresses function (MDS data)
• Application of % of residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury (MDS data)
• Medicare spending per beneficiary (calculated using claims data)
• Discharge to community (calculated using claims data)

CMS will not be posting the sixth quality measure on potentially preventable 30-day Post-Discharge readmissions at this time as they need to complete further testing to determine if any modifications to the measure and its display are needed to ensure consumers gain an accurate picture of provider quality.

For additional information, including the data collection time frames for each measure, click here.

Skilled Nursing Facility performance on these measures will be updated quarterly on Nursing Home Compare. In advance of the posting, CMS will post updated Provider Preview Reports to the CASPER system and give providers a 30-day preview period to review their latest performance data on the quality measures prior to this data being publicly displayed. Corrections to the underlying data will not be permitted during this time. However, providers can request a CMS review during the preview period if they believe their data scores displayed are inaccurate.

The next update of the QRP measures on Nursing Home Compare will be in January 2019 for which the preview period just closed on Nov. 30.

Related Resources: New FAQ Document

We encourage members to sign up for a new service from CMS. Skilled Nursing Facilities can now be notified when their MDS submissions are not meeting the 80 percent reporting requirement under the QRP. To ensure future compliance, provide your CCN and email address(es) to: QRPHelp@cormac-corp.com. CORMAC, a CMS contractor, sends quarterly submission deadline reminders only to those Skilled Nursing Facilities that are not meeting all required reporting thresholds ahead of the submission deadline.