Skilled Nursing News January 23, 2020
The federal government on Thursday announced a major shake-up to its consumer-facing database of skilled nursing facility quality information, revealing plans to merge Nursing Home Compare into a more comprehensive website that features data about care sites across the continuum.
Sometime later this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will combine all eight of its current Compare sites into one tool called Medicare Care Compare, CMS administrator Seema Verma wrote in a Thursday blog post.
“To meet the needs of today’s Medicare beneficiaries and improve the online Medicare customer experience, CMS plans to combine and standardize these eight existing Compare tools, allowing users to access the same information through a single point of entry and simplified navigation...