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CMS Releases Technical Specification Report of SNF HAI Measure

Post Date: 09/25/2026

CMS Releases Technical Specification Report of SNF HAI Measure

The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Requiring Hospitalization Measure Technical Specification Report is now available from CMS. The measure is a facility-level, one-year outcome measure that estimates the risk-standardized rate of HAIs that are acquired during SNF care and result in hospitalization. HAIs are identified using the principal diagnosis on beneficiaries’ Medicare inpatient (IP) claims. The measure is designed to report a variety of healthcare-associated infections as a singular rate, and it incorporates an indicator of infection severity as it only assesses infections that require hospitalization. Read the report, prepared by RTI International on behalf of the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality.