Based on interviews and record reviews, the facility failed to ensure that the direct care staffing information based on payroll data was submitted based on the schedule specified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Specifically, the facility failed to submit the direct care staffing data for fiscal year Quarter 1/2026 (10/01/2025 - 12/31/2025) timely.The findings include:The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Electronic Staffing Data Submission Payroll-Based Journal, Long Term Care Facility Policy Manual version 2.7 dated 06/2025 documented Section 6106 of the Affordable Care Act requires facilities to electronically submit direct care staffing information (including agency and contract staff) based on payroll and other auditable data. …
F851 citations in New York
Staffing data submission · Administration Deficiencies
Electronically submit to CMS complete and accurate direct care staffing information, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
New York cites F851 less often than its own record predicts
0.24 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in New York in 2024, this is the portion that was F851.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What New York surveyors wrote
F851 findings written in New York, one from each severity band recorded here, most serious first.
Severity is as the surveyor wrote it. Some findings had already been corrected before the survey.
Based on record review and interviews conducted during the Recertification Survey from 11/13/2024 to 11/21/2024, the facility did not ensure that the direct care staffing information based on payroll data was submitted based on the schedule specified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Specifically, the facility failed to submit the direct care staffing data for Quarter 3 2024 (April 1 - June 30) in a timely manner. The findings are: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Electronic Staffing Data Submission Payroll-Based Journal, Long Term Care Facility Policy Manual version 2.6 dated 06/2022 documented Section 6106 of the Affordable Care Act requires facilities to electronically submit direct care staffing information (including agency and contract staff) based on… …
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