PBJ News Category
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin posting for the first time ever, staff turnover rates and weekend staff levels for nursing homes on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website today
For the administrator looking to improve an overall quality score quickly, the staffing score is a good place to start.
The staffing score will boost a facilityβs overall score by one star if it: exceeds the health inspection score, and is either four or five stars.
Nursing homes have manipulated the influential star system in ways that have masked deep problems β and left them unprepared for Covid-19. The piece, as you may have already deduced speaks to Nursing Home Compare, the Five-Star Rating System and Payroll Based Journal (PBJ).
Accurate PBJ reporting can impact your Five-Star rating, referral patterns, census stability and overall long-term viability.
In Skilled Nursing News, Don Feige and others discuss the impact of CMS using PBJ for Five Star ratings and how providers are adapting.
Leading Age NY informs its members how CMS is shifting the data source used to calculate the staffing measures of the nursing home quality rating system from self reported 671 data to auditable PBJ reports.
Skilled nursing providers should submit their next round of payroll based journaling data well ahead of the May 15 deadline in order to catch errors, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said Thursday
As reported in Provider Magazine, consumers increasingly are more likely to choose a skilled nursing care center if it has a Five-Star Rating of five stars, according to a recent study by Health Services Research
