Steven Littlehale in McKnight’s: When The Rules Change, Not Everyone Wins: Counting IC Deficiencies in Five-Star

February 10, 2021

On Jan. 27, CMS recalculated all Five-Star domains and updated the Special Focus Facility lists. This is not news. Five-Star is updated quarterly. However this past quarter’s update had everyone a little more anxious than usual. Why? Because data that we were told would not count in its calculations, would, in fact, now be included. The rules were changed.