Skilled Nursing News October 21, 2025
A recently released report from a federal watchdog agency drew attention to nursing homes’ underreporting of resident falls involving major injury – but policymakers and providers should not overlook the data and communication gaps and discrepancies between nursing homes and hospitals that are at issue in the report’s findings.
That’s a message that several nursing home industry leaders have emphasized in the wake of the report, which was released in September by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The report analyzed data from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023. OIG compared hospital Medicare claims and nursing homes’ Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments to determine that 42,864 Medicare-enrolled nursing home residents experienced...
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