New addition to CMS website
Mcknight's had a recent article about the changes to the CMS ranking website. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a number of updates to its Web site. These include new information about the Five-Star rating system for nursing homes, which became available Thursday, May 28.
Five-Star provider preview reports were released May 20. Nursing home providers can access that information through the Minimum Data Set (MDS) State Welcome pages that are available at the state servers for the submission of MDS data, according to CMS.
May's Five-Star data was added to the Nursing Home Compare Web site on May 28. For more information, visit www.medicare.gov/NHcompare.
CMS has also updated the information under its FAQ section of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) portion of its Web site. On May 19, CMS added answers to questions such as "Why is CMS using recovery audit contractors?" and "Who should providers contact with questions concerning recovery audit contractor communications?" For more information, visit www.cms.hhs.gov/RAC.
