Providers overall saw higher reimbursements under the Patient Driven Payment model than what would have come under the Resource Utilization Group system during its first month of implementation, an initial analysis found.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services surprised providers at the end of 2019 when they presented a first draft of the 2020 MDS item sets.
The move to managed care from fee-for-service has been “pretty much a disaster” for long-term care, said Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended no payment increases for skilled nursing providers in 2021 while also cautioning against payment decreases amid industry changes.
The Society for Post-Act and Long-Term Care Medicine sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in late November asking the agency to stop using an icon to chastise providers.
Obesity in midlife is associated with a greater risk of dementia down the road, a study that followed more than 1 million women for nearly two decades found.
Catherine Murphy Barron, Principal and Actuary, Milliman.
Providers will have to wait until the spring before receiving guidance on Phase 3 of the Requirements of Participation.
Post-acute care providers need to rethink their care delivery models as healthcare shifts to a value-based system from a volume-based system, said one prominent industry expert.
