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Underreporting in Nursing Home Quality Measures

  • alexmoser0
  • Aug 25, 2020
  • 1 min read


Research conducted by Integra Med Analytics finds that Medicare-certified nursing homes often underreport incidences of preventable hospitalizations. Below is a summary of the findings from our research:

  • Publicly available Skilled Nursing Facility (“SNF”) quality measures from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") are susceptible to self-reporting bias which hampers their accuracy.

  • Comparison of self-reported SNF data with subsequent hospital claims data for the same SNF patients indicates that the self-reported data is often under-reported and unrelated to hospital data.

  • Pressure ulcers are under-reported by the SNF self-reported measure when compared with the hospital-based measure.

  • Self-reported measures for pressure ulcers, UTIs and falls are uncorrelated with hospital-based measures.

Additional details can be found in the research report published online at nursinghomereporting.com.


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