Provider Relief Fund: COVID-19 Nursing Home Quality Incentive Payments

A dataset from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services detailing $2 billion in incentive payments to nursing homes for reducing COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. It includes facility-level performance metrics, payment amounts, and location data. The data was last updated on August 2, 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between Facility Infection Rate Per 1000 Resident Weeks and Final Payment using regression on facility records.
• Map nursing home performance by State and Zip Code to identify geographic disparities in infection control.
• Compare Facility Infection Rate Per 1000 Resident Weeks against County Infection Rate Per 1000 Resident Weeks to calculate relative performance scores.
• Assess the impact of Mortality Adjustment on the Infection Performance Score and Final Payment for individual facilities.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative data.cdc.gov domain, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
• Includes 15 specific columns covering financial, performance, and geographic dimensions for analysis.
• Incentive payments are tied to concrete, defined performance metrics against county and national benchmarks.

Limitations

• Last updated 2021-08-02 12:56:11; freshness should be verified for current analyses.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, via data.cdc.gov.

Collection Method

Likely collected from nursing home facility reports as part of the Provider Relief Fund COVID-19 Nursing Home Quality Incentive Program.

Time Range

Performance Month column suggests data is aggregated by month, but specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2021-08-02 12:56:11

Geography

State, City, County, and Zip Code columns indicate coverage is within the United States.