The June 2026 Quarterly Confidential Feedback Reports for the fiscal year 2027 Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program are now available through the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System. The reports include facility-level results for eight quality measures: SNF 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure; Skilled Nursing Facility Healthcare-Associated Infections Requiring Hospitalization; Discharge to Community — Post-Acute Care Measure for SNFs; Number of Hospitalizations per 1,000 Long Stay Resident Days; Total Nursing Staff Turnover; Total Nurse Staffing Hours per Resident Day; Discharge Function Score for SNFs; and Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury (Long-Stay). FY 2027 is the first SNF VBP Program year to assess eight quality measures rather than four, as part of the program’s expansion. More information is available on the SNF VBP Program Measures webpage.
The results will be used for FY 2027 scoring and incentive payment calculations, which take effect Oct. 1, 2026. Performance scores and incentive payment multipliers will be released in the August 2026 Performance Score Reports. SNFs may request corrections through July 1, 2026, limited to errors made by CMS or its contractors when calculating measure results. Requests must be sent to SNFVBPquestions@cms.hhs.gov with the subject line “SNF VBP Review and Correction Inquiry” and include the facility’s CMS Certification Number, facility name, correction request, and reason for the request.
All SNFs and non-Critical Access Hospital swing bed rural providers paid under Medicare’s SNF Prospective Payment System are subject to the SNF VBP Program, with no action required for inclusion. To receive the June 2026 report, a facility must have been listed as active in iQIES as of April 1, 2026. To access the report, log into iQIES with a HARP user ID and password, select My Reports, open the MDS 3.0 Provider Preview Reports folder, locate the SNF VBP Program Quarterly Confidential Feedback Report, and select More to download it.
Questions about iQIES access may be directed to the iQIES Service Center at 800-339-9313 or iqies@cms.hhs.gov. Additional SNF VBP questions may be sent to SNFVBPquestions@cms.hhs.gov.