What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
Jan 11, 2008
Medicare is an insurance program.
What is CMS?
Jan 01, 2008
CMS is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
How do nursing homes obtain revenues?
Jan 01, 2008
According to CMS, Medicaid paid 48 percent of nursing home expenditures in 2001.
What short-term trends are affecting nursing homes?
Jan 01, 2008
According to a Wall Street analysis conducted for CMS, here are several: • Wall Street is more pessimistic than in the past about sector prospects. • Higher Medicare payments are subsidizing lower...
How many nursing homes exist?
Jan 01, 2008
About 16,500 nursing homes certified exist to provide Medicare and/or Medicaid care in the United States, with approximately 1.8 million total beds.
Where does CMS have offices?
Jan 01, 2008
CMS has headquarters in Baltimore and Washington.
How do we know the quality measures are based on accurate data?
Jan 01, 2008
According to CMS, the quality measures (QMs) are calculated using information from the Minimum Data Set (MDS).
How much is spent on home health care?
Jan 01, 2008
According to CMS, $45 billion was spent on home care in 2001.
How does CMS collect information for Nursing Home Compare?
Jan 01, 2008
The nursing home quality information reported in Nursing Home Compare on www.medicare.gov comes from two CMS resources.
What is CLIA?
Jan 11, 2008
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) established quality standards for all laboratory testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability and timeliness of patient test results regardless...