

Frontier Analysis provides transparency, simplicity, objectivity, and modeling flexibility. Complete survey reports and nursing home plans of correction, edited to ensure patient confidentiality, are available at each nursing home as well as at IDPH. State government agencies inspect health care providers, including home health agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis facilities, as well as other health care providers. Includes Home Health Care, Nursing Homes, Dialysis Facilities and more. Frontier Analysis offers concrete benefits and advantages – derived mainly from its basis on linear programming – such as identification of peer performers, benchmarking, simplified sensitivity/scenario analyses, establishing star distributions, and incorporating management directives. Compare healthcare facilities and services that are certified by Medicare.

Frontier analysis can be made to generate results that closely parallel those from CMS. Another objective is to compare these ratings with classifications obtained with frontier analysis, a generalization of data envelopment analysis (DEA), using the same data and attributes. One objective of this work is to explore and extract these data in a replicable manner and to reveal how the government uses them to generate the star ratings. Five-Star Report CMS put out the QSO-19-08-NH Memo on 3-5-19. Gives an Overall Quality Rating of 1-5 stars based on performance for Health Inspections, Staffing and QMs. NHC is the website the public can go to see detailed info on the Five-Star ratings. The ratings are generated using publicly available data. CMS created to help the public compare NHs more easily. The outcomes are disseminated in various ways including a user friendly and informative web page.

The US Government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rates more than 15,000 nursing homes nationwide using a five-star scale.
