CMS Posts Additional SNF/LTC Datasets

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare

CMS has posted numerous updated datasets today (January 26, 2022):

Provider Information 

General information on currently active nursing homes, including number of certified beds, quality measure scores, staffing and other information used in the Five-Star Rating System. Data are presented as one row per nursing home. Download CSV

Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program – National Data

Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) provide Medicare Part A SNF services to beneficiaries and must report data on certain measures of quality to Medicare through the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP). This file contains national averages on quality measures implemented under the IMPACT Act. Download CSV

Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program – Swing Beds – Provider Data

Non-Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) with swing beds are hospitals that provide Medicare Part A Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) services to beneficiaries and must report data on certain measures of quality to Medicare through the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP). This file contains a list of the swing bed units participating in the SNF QRP, as well as their results on quality measures implemented under the IMPACT Act. Download CSV

MDS Quality Measures

Measures of the quality of resident care in nursing homes that are based on the resident assessments that make up the nursing home Minimum Data Set (MDS). Each row contains a specific quality measure for a specific nursing home and includes the 4-quarter score average and scores for each individual quarter. Download CSV

Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program – Provider Data

Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) provide Medicare Part A SNF services to beneficiaries and must report data on certain measures of quality to Medicare through the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP). This file contains a list of SNFs, as well as their results on the quality of resident care measures implemented under the IMPACT Act. Download CSV

Penalties

A list of the fines and payment denials received by nursing homes in the last three years. Download CSV

State-Level Health Inspection Cut Points

State-specific ranges for the weighted health inspection score for each health inspection star rating category. Data are presented as one row per state or territory. Download CSV 

Fire Safety Deficiencies

A list of nursing home fire safety citations in the last three years, including the nursing home that received the citation, the associated inspection date, citation tag number and description, scope and severity, the current status of the citation and the correction date. Data are presented as one citation per row. Download CSV

Medicare Claims Quality Measures

Measures of the quality of resident care in nursing homes that are based on Medicare claims data. Each row contains a specific quality measure for a specific nursing home and includes the risk-adjusted score. Download CSV 

Nursing Home Data Collection Intervals

This table lists the data collection periods for the measures of Quality of Resident Care displayed for Nursing Homes including Rehab Services as well as the intervals for complaint citations and citations on focused infection control inspections. It also includes the data collection period for the nursing home staffing measures. The data collection periods for some short-stay measures differ slightly from the measure periods in the MDS Quality Measure file due to the look-back periods for these measures. Download CSV

Health Deficiencies

A list of nursing home health citations in the last three years, including the nursing home that received the citation, the associated inspection date, citation tag number and description, scope and severity, the current status of the citation and the correction date. Data are presented as one citation per row. Download CSV

Inspection Dates

A list of nursing home inspection dates in the past three years, including health inspections, fire safety inspections, complaint inspections and infection control inspections. Download CSV

Citation Code Look-up

This is a look-up table for nursing home inspection citations, providing a text description for each citation or tag code. Download CSV

Survey Summary

Nursing home summary information for nursing home health and fire safety inspections in the last three years, including dates of the three most recent inspections (including those with no citations), and counts of citations, overall and within specified categories. Data are presented as one inspection per provider. Note that citation counts do not include citations from complaint inspections. Download CSV

State US Averages

A list of a variety of averages for each state or territory as well as the national average, including each quality measure, staffing, fine amount and number of deficiencies. Each row displays a specific state or territory, the associated measure and average. Download CSV 

Ownership

A list of ownership information for currently active nursing homes. Download CSV

FY 2022 SNF VBP Facility-Level Dataset

This dataset contains facility-specific performance information for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program. Included are baseline period (FY 2018) and performance period (April 1, 2019, through December 1, 2019) risk-standardized readmission rates and information on achievement scores, improvement scores, performance scores, rankings, and incentive payment multipliers that reflect suppression of the use of SNF readmission measure data for purposes of FY 2022 scoring and payment adjustments in the FY 2022 SNF VBP Program year because the effects of the COVID-19 public health emergency on the data used to calculate the SNF readmission Measure (SNFRM) inhibited CMS’s ability to make fair national comparisons of SNFs’ performance. Download CSV 

FY 2022 SNF VBP Aggregate Performance

This table contains aggregate level information for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program. Download CSV