Public Reporting & Certificates
The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) requires that CMS and facilities inform beneficiaries about facility performance under the ESRD QIP. CMS does this in two primary ways:
- Posting information to Care Compare on the Medicare.gov website and elsewhere
- Requiring dialysis facilities to post a Performance Score Certificate (PSC) that outlines how well it performed under the ESRD QIP
Care Compare
CMS posts each facility’s Total Performance Score (TPS) and scores on each individual measure on the Care Compare website.
Performance Score Summary Reports
CMS also posts a Performance Score Summary Report (PSSR) data file, a sizeable spreadsheet containing the performance values of each facility for the given Payment Year (PY).
- PY 2024 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2023 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2022 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2021 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2020 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2019 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2018 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2017 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2016 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2015 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2014 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2013 PSSR (ZIP)
- PY 2012 PSSR (ZIP)
Public Use Data Files
Part of the ESRD QIP rulemaking process includes proposing and finalizing performance values, CMS calculates values for each clinical measure, along with the minimum TPS, for the applicable PY. In order for the stakeholder community to repeat and verify the accuracy of CMS’s calculations, CMS releases to the public a sizeable spreadsheet containing the facility-level data used to calculate those percentiles. CMS removes the facility identifiers in these reference files.
- CY 2025 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2024 Final Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2024 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2023 Final Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2023 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2022 Final Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2022 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2021 Final Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2021 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2020 Final Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2020 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2019 Final Rule (ZIP)
- CY 2019 Proposed Rule (ZIP)
Performance Score Certificates
MIPPA also requires that CMS furnishes each dialysis facility with a PSC that documents the facility’s TPS. The law requires that facilities display their PSC in a prominent location within fifteen business days of the PSC’s release. CMS provides new PSCs annually in both English and in Spanish. Sample PSCs can be found below.