CMS has released Design for Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users’ Guide, dated July 2016

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made several changes to the quality measure (QM) domain of the Five Star Nursing Home Quality Rating System.   These include the addition of five new measures and several methodological changes.

The manual is available at https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/CertificationandComplianc/downloads/usersguide.pdf