CMS released the FY 2025 Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) for skilled nursing facilities. Your PEPPER helps you review your billing data to make sure claims are accurate. Use it to: How to Get Your PEPPER Authorized officials (AOs), access managers (AMs), and staff end users (SEUs) …
An updated PBJ FAQ sheet has been posted to reflect the PBJ transition to iQIES and minor clarifications. This update does not include any changes to PBJ policies. PBJ Policy Manual FAQ Update 082026 (PDF) From https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/nursing-home-improvement/staffing-data-submission
This manual provides general background and information about the submission requirements, such as sample submission screens, submission deadlines, and definitions of job categories. Note: Changes from the previous version of this policy manual are identified in red/italics. September 2026 An updated PBJ Policy Manual and PBJ FAQ sheet have been …
REVISED: Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Transition to iQIES Memo # QSO-26-12-NH REVISED Posting Date 2026-09-11 Fiscal Year 2026 Downloads From https://www.cms.gov/medicare/health-safety-standards/quality-safety-oversight-general-information/policy-memos/policy-memos-states-cms-locations/payroll-based-journal-pbj-transition-iqies
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offers a web-based training on the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Annual Payment Update (APU). The training provides an overview of the SNF QRP and its life cycle, including data collection and submission timelines, reporting requirements, data completion thresholds, …
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. By Kemet Scott, MBA, MSML, LNHA, NHA-CT, QCP, LSSGB, CDP Seventy percent. That’s how much of the variance in team engagement Gallup attributes to the manager (Gallup, n.d.). A nursing home operates much like an engine, with every …
A one-on-one meeting offers designated time for the administrator and department head to maintain alignment, build trust, address barriers, exchange feedback, and support department success and leadership development. Use the prompts in the Administrator and Department Head 1:1 Discussion Template regularly, appropriate to the department head and facility operations, to …
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The risk-based survey (RBS), a more focused standard recertification survey for qualifying higher performing nursing homes, reduces survey time and resource use while maintaining oversight of health and safety requirements. It also changes how the Centers for Medicare …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a web-based training that provides an overview of the SNF VBP Program. The SNF VBP New Measure Training reviews recently adopted quality measures (QMs), their role in the SNF VBP Program, and how these QMs may impact program performance assessment, program …
Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides – Hawaii (2026) As a result of the continued consequences of severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides that occurred March 10-24, 2026, on the State of Hawaii, on this date and after consultation with public health officials as necessary, I, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., …
