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

CMS has posted 20 Nursing homes including rehab services Datasets on March 31, 2022:

• COVID-19 Vaccination Rates – State and National Averages … State and National averages for facility resident and healthcare personnel COVID-19 vaccination rates.
• COVID-19 Vaccination Rates – Provider Data … Current resident and healthcare personnel COVID-19 vaccination rates.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• MDS Quality Measures … Quality measures that are based on the resident assessments that make up the nursing home Minimum Data Set (MDS).
• 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).
• Penalties … A list of the fines and payment denials received by nursing homes in the last three years.
• State-Level Health Inspection Cut Points … State-specific ranges for the weighted health inspection score for each health inspection star rating category.
• 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.
• Medicare Claims Quality Measures … Quality measures that are based on Medicare claims data.
• Nursing Home Data Collection Intervals … This table lists the data collection periods for the quality measures 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.
• 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. 
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ownership … A list of ownership information for currently active nursing homes.
• 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.
• 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.

I’ve provided the list of these reports (provided in CSV format). If you’re interested in diving into the data, use the hyperlink found in the first sentence of this blog then scroll to find the dataset(s) you’re looking for. There are 10 on a page so be sure to go to the second page to find the report and the corresponding CSV, starting with Medicare Claims Quality Measures.