Early anecdotal evidence about the new Patient Driven Payment Model indicated success for both nursing home providers and residents, the nation’s top nursing home lobbyist said in January.
“Providers are … taking care of [sicker] patients they didn’t take care of before,” American Health Care Association President and CEO Mark Parkinson said.
He said that if the initial numbers bear out nationally, “we’ll be saving the system a lot of money.”
Regardless of any other indicators, patient outcomes will be the key for future action, he added.
Therapy levels have not changed much under PDPM, which took effect on Oct. 1. Parkinson noted that, anecdotally, there had been a “modest” uptick in group and concurrent therapy.
“There are thousands of moving parts with PDPM and thousands of ways it could have gone wrong,” Parkinson said, “and CMS got it right.”
From the February 2020 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
