Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing Datasets Posted

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

As promised in QSO-22-08-NH (top of page 4), CMS posted Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing Datasets today, January 26, 2022.

“The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The View Data link above includes the hours staff are paid to work each day, for each facility, aggregated by staff reporting category. Examples of reporting categories include Director of Nursing, Administrative Registered Nurses, Registered Nursing, Administrative Licensed Practice Nurses, Licensed Practice Nurses, Certified Nurse Aides, Certified Medication Aides, and Nurse Aides in Training. There are also other non-nurse staff categories provided in the data such as Respiratory Therapist, Occupational Therapist, and Social Worker. The datasets also include a facility’s daily census calculated using the Minimum Data Set (MDS) submission.”

“The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Employee Detail Nursing Home Staffing datasets linked below provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The datasets include the number of hours that each individual staff member worked, on each day in the quarter (not aggregated by staff reporting category). Each file contains a system generated employee identification number, work date, job type and employment status, and hours worked for each nursing home employee.”

Note: These full datasets contain more records than most spreadsheet programs can accept, and the use of a database or statistical software is required. Information on Payroll-Based Journal staffing as submitted by long term care facilities. Data are presented as one row per work day, for each facility.

Also provided is the 4-page Payroll-Based Journal Employee Detail Technical Specifications document.