Skilled Nursing News October 23, 2024
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released plans to update the State Performance Standards System (SPSS) for the 2025 fiscal year. This will involve eliminating two measures from the previous year, introducing a new one, and revamping several others.
A new addition to the SPSS, which is the federal agency’s rubric for grading the network of State Survey Agencies, is a measure under the section of Survey and Intake Quality: the Nursing Home Recertification Survey Deficiency Citation and Tasks Investigated. This measure will assess the frequency and type of nursing home deficiencies and the completion of mandatory or triggered tasks on recertification surveys.
Moreover, CMS has reintroduced some measures with updates in this same domain....
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