09/04/2025

Maximize Your Membership: New 5-Star and Trend Reports Now Available for LeadingAge Members

The latest Five-Star Reports and SNF Trend Reports are now available for members to download from the LeadingAge Quality Metrics website. Reports are also being loaded into the LeadingAge Report Portal and will be accessible there once the upload is complete. These updates include July 2025 data, with MDS-based quality measures drawn from 2024Q2–2025Q1, claims-based measures from 2024Q1–2024Q4, and staffing numbers from 2025Q1.

The July refresh also incorporates a specification change to survey ratings. Rather than being based on the three most recent survey cycles, survey ratings now reflect only the two most recent cycles, while continuing to account for complaint and infection control deficiencies within the 13–36 month window. This change may impact survey scores differently depending on whether a new survey was included in the July dataset. Members can review statewide impacts in the analysis provided alongside the Trend Reports.

Additionally, you likely saw that the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled in favor of LeadingAge Ohio and Ohio nursing homes in its decision pertaining to the quality incentive payment (QIP). As of yet, Medicaid has not shared its plans for adjusting the quality-based portion of the payment, nor has it clarified intentions related to QIP payments going back to July 2023. LeadingAge Ohio is in active conversations with the Department and will update members as soon as more information is available.