12/18/2025

CMS Considers Advance Care Planning Measure for Nursing Homes

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is weighing a new quality measure that would track whether nursing home residents have documented advance care planning by discharge. The proposal appears on CMS’s 2025 Measures Under Consideration list and could apply to the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program, tying documentation of advance care planning conversations or decisions to future quality performance.

While inclusion on the consideration list does not guarantee adoption, similar measures often resurface in rulemaking. CMS is accepting public comments on the proposed measures through January 6.

Read the original reporting from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News on CMS weighing an advance care planning quality measure for nursing homes.