PBJ News Category
CMS is also seeking feedback on including a Nursing Home Staff Turnover measure in the VBP program. The measure uses data from the CMS payroll-based journal system and reports annual turnover for nurses.
Nursing homes would face minimum staffing requirements and a prohibition on pre-dispute arbitration agreements, among other significant potential changes included in legislation introduced last week by a group of Democratic senators.
Accurate PBJ reporting can impact your Five-Star rating, referral patterns, census stability and overall long-term viability.
We often get asked the βWhy Me?β question when a facility gets audited. Unfortunately, thereβs very little disclosure from CMS on the triggers and reasons for PBJ audits. Even the associations are unable to learn much about PBJ audits.
Issues of staffing, quality and funding, particularly Medicaid reimbursement, were addressed by David Grabowski, Ph.D., a professor at the Harvard Medical School and David Gifford, M.D., who heads up quality and regulatory affairs for the American Health Care Association.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave Skilled Nursing News a glimpse into the PBJ audit process.
The goal is to have every facility submitting verifiable, auditable data, using the payroll-based journal (PBJ) staffing information.
In McKnights, Don Feige observes how CMS continues their quest to create a standardized, consistent measure of staffing across the industry by closing loopholes and clarifying gray areas.
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.
In a memo published earlier this week, CMS announced that they will begin posting PBJ public use files for viewing by LTC facilities, stakeholders, and the general public at http://data.cms.gov/ on November 1, 2017.
