Massachusetts Nursing Facilities

Nursing facilities serve an important role in the continuum of health care services in Massachusetts, providing over 14 million patient days of service in 2017; an average of over thirty-nine thousand individuals received care from nursing facilities on a daily basis.

To better understand this component of the Massachusetts health care system, CHIA's initial report, released November 2019, examines the Commonwealth's nursing facilities at an industry level, as well as by analytic cohorts, on measures of utilization, financial performance, and quality of care over a five-year period (2013–2017).

In addition to the report, CHIA has also developed an analytic dashboard that facilitates a profile view of each of the 393 nursing facilities in Massachusetts.

Trends in the Massachusetts Nursing Facility Industry Key Findings
 - November 2019

• From 2013 to 2017, utilization of nursing facilities in the Commonwealth declined 5.4%.
  
  

• In 2017, 92.9% of nursing facility resident days were covered by three payer types: MassHealth (69.0%), Medicare (12.7%), and Self-Pay (11.2%).
  
  

• Among these three largest payer categories, Medicare resident days declined the greatest percentage from 2013 to 2017 (-14.8%), compared to Medicaid (-3.4%), and self-pay (-4.8%).
  
  

• Across nursing facilities, the median operating margin declined from -0.8% in 2013 to -3.9% in 2017.
  
  

• On a per-resident day basis, revenue increased across these three largest payer categories: Medicare (+10.1%), Medicaid (+5.5%), and self-pay (+7.4%).
  
  

• In 2017, 67.8% of resident days were provided at facilities with quality rated as average or above, with the remaining 32.2% provided by facilities rated as below or much below average.

Nursing Facilities in Massachusetts (2013-2017) Interactive Dashboard

Please Note: Data is included for each year available as of publication. As a result, some facilities will have fewer than five years of data displayed.