CMS ends Blanket Waiver of Nursing Home Staffing Data Submission Requirement

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is ending its waiver of the requirement for nursing homes to submit staffing data through CMS’s Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) system, effective immediately.

The original waiver, issued with a retroactive date of March 1, 2020, waived the PBJ reporting requirements set forth under 42 C.F.R. 483.70(q). Absent this waiver, providers would have been required to submit staffing data through CMS’s PBJ system for CMS’s second fiscal quarter reporting period, from January 1 through March 31, with a due date of May 15