Nursing homes: Limitations of using CMS data to identify private equity and other ownership : report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives

Nursing homes: Limitations of using CMS data to identify private equity and other ownership : report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Alternate Title(s):
Limitations of using CMS data to identify private equity and other ownership: report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives
Contributor(s):
United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, addressee.
Publication:
Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, September 2023
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Data Accuracy
Government Regulation
Legislation, Medical
Nursing Homes -- economics
Nursing Homes -- legislation & jurisprudence
Nursing Homes -- organization & administration
United States
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Why GAO did this study. About 14,700 nursing homes enrolled in Medicare provided care to about 1.2 million elderly or disabled residents in 2021, for a total cost of about $28.5 billion. CMS is the agency responsible for ensuring nursing homes enrolled in the Medicare program meet certain quality standards. Nursing homes must report their owners that meet certain ownership thresholds to CMS. CMS has recently taken steps to improve the transparency of nursing home ownership by, for example, publicly releasing additional ownership data as of 2022. However, the extent to which CMS’s ownership data can be used to identify private equity ownership is unclear. GAO was asked to review CMS’s nursing home ownership data for information about private equity owners. This report 1) estimates the percentage of Medicare-enrolled nursing homes in 2022 that were private equity-owned and 2) describes the limitations of using CMS’s data to identify private equity and other owners of nursing homes. To do so, GAO reviewed data on nursing home ownership from CMS and other sources, reviewed documentation and relevant studies, and interviewed CMS officials, among other steps.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (i, 17 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
9918734185006676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918734185006676