Skilled Nursing News September 18, 2025
Nursing homes are frequently failing to report when a resident falls and experiences a major injury.
That’s according to findings posted Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG). Nursing homes have poor compliance with fall reporting requirements mandated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the public is not seeing accurate fall rates when evaluating providers on CMS’ Care Compare website, the government watchdog report stated.
To create the report, OIG analyzed data from the one-year period between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. The agency examined 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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