Media & research

Press coverage, the studies we publish, and shorter notes on what the public data is actually saying about skilled nursing.

Date	Type	Source	Title
Oct 27, 2026	Study	BARA Analytics	SNF payer rates from Transparency in Coverage data What insurer price files show about nursing-home rates, what they leave out, why raw files mislead, and what the CMS-9882-F final rule changes in 2027.
Oct 8, 2026	Cited	McKnight’s Long-Term Care News	A golden moment for LTC shouldn’t be dimmed by trophy naysayers An editorial on the new CMS High Performing designation. The figure cited, 11.6 percent of U.S. nursing homes, is drawn from the BARA Analytics High Performing nursing homes map.
Sep 19, 2026	Study	BARA Analytics	The uneven recovery of nursing-home census, 2020–2026 Urban homes are back to pre-pandemic census; rural homes are four points behind, and not because more of them closed. Across ~14,700 facilities and 26 quarters: demand is recovering, supply is what is shrinking.
Jul 21, 2026	Press	McKnight’s Senior Living	BARA Analytics’ SNF Insights provides operators, inventors with strategic data Founder Brett Nelson on why operators need market context as well as their own numbers: occupancy up 5% reads very differently once you know what the rest of the market did.
Jul 21, 2026	Press	Birmingham Business Journal	BARA Analytics and Brett Nelson on the skilled nursing market The Birmingham Business Journal on BARA Analytics and its skilled nursing market work.

Studies and notes are added here as they publish. For anything in between, we post on LinkedIn.

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