After much hype, trepidation and, for some providers, feverish planning, the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) took effect in October. There has been much speculation about how the new system, ...
In 1998, some facilities were not at all prepared for the change to the Prospective Payment System. Yet here we are again, facing another major payment restructure in the skilled nursing home ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...
Skilled nursing facilities get a 4.1% payment increase for 2025, according to a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...
In what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today described as a “parity adjustment recalibration,” the agency said it will increase payments to skilled nursing facilities by 4%, or ...
Skilled-nursing providers continue to gear up for a reimbursement overhaul next month, a transition they hope will reward outcome-based care but could also hurt therapy-oriented facilities. The CMS is ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A change in how the federal government reimburses skilled nursing facilities for therapy services is shaking up the industry, some say resulting in a “profits over people” focus. The ...
More than a year and a half after implementing the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), how is your skilled nursing facility doing – operationally and financially? Chances are, you may still not know.