01/27/2022

New Skilled Nursing Facility QRP Public Reporting Tip Sheet

On January 26, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Second Edition Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Public Reporting Tip Sheet to help providers understand CMS’s public reporting approach to the SNF QRP to account for CMS quality data submissions that were either optional or excepted from public reporting due to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). The impact on CMS’s Care Compare website refreshes is also outlined. This tip sheet serves as a companion document to the first edition SNF COVID-19 Public Reporting Tip Sheet published in October 2020. The tip sheet is available in the downloads section of the CMS Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Training webpage.