tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 28

Nursing Homes: Learn Ins And Outs Of CMS' Nursing Home Star Ratings

Rise and shine: Don't let this latest effort to quantify nursing home quality get you. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is rolling out a five-star rating system for nursing homes in December, an initiative that could put your facility on or off consumers' shopping lists. And now's the time to find out how the approach will work so that you can explain it to staff and consumers -- and potentially even boost your initial star rating before it's too late.The basics: CMS will calculate a facility's number of stars based on information already reported on the...

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