Survey-safe staffing means every clinician in your building — employed or contract — is fully credentialed, currently licensed, screened against the OIG exclusion list, and accounted for in your PBJ file. The federal hours-per-resident-day mandate was repealed effective February 2026. The survey tags and the Five-Star staffing measures that judge […]
Learn MoreYour CMS Five-Star staffing rating is built from six measures, all computed from the payroll-based staffing data you already report to Medicare — two on registered nurse and total nurse hours, one on weekend coverage, and three on turnover. Roughly a third of the score isn’t about hours at all. […]
Learn MoreCMS is moving Payroll-Based Journal submissions from QIES to iQIES on August 17, 2026. QIES stops accepting PBJ data after 11:59 PM ET on August 14. Your quarterly deadlines and reporting requirements don’t change — but if your vendor isn’t set up in iQIES before the switch, your Q4 submission […]
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