Providers rewarded for sticking with it
One could excuse long-term care providers if they’re walking around looking over their shoulders right now. I can personally identify with that.
Payment
BREAKING NEWS: CMS gives skilled nursing 2.4% Medicare pay raise, unveils another new resident classification system
In a flurry of activity late Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an $850 million pay raise for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal 2019 that comes along with major simplifications to a previously pitched resident classification system.
Is it the docs’ turn to get stoned?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services brought out its equivalent of a brass band and confetti machine Tuesday to tout a new provider payment strategy. One could almost hear strains of “Happy Days Are Here Again” in the background.
Payment reform: Ready! Set! Don’t go! No, I mean go!
Perhaps you think that the new therapy-payment bombshell (RCS-1) has turned out to be a dud. I hope to make the point that it was not.
One week away: 12th Annual Online Expo nearing record numbers
New attendance records are expected to be set at the 12th Annual McKnight’s Online Expo next week during the five-webinar virtual trade show.
MedPAC members on board with incremental shift to new pay model starting in 2019
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission members reportedly expressed unanimous support for a plan to transition to a new post-acute payment system beginning in 2019 at a meeting last week.
MedPAC suggests 2-year, incremental transition to new post-acute pay plan
Long-term care providers could see changes to their payment system as early as 2019 under an incremental transition period being considered by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
CMS wants more comments on possible overhaul of therapy pay rules
Despite the closing of the official comment period, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said Thursday they will still accept feedback from providers on a proposal to replace the current skilled nursing therapy reimbursement method.
Pay rates for lab tests threaten access for long-term care beneficiaries, group warns
Long-term care beneficiaries may be at risk under proposed reimbursement rates for clinical laboratory tests, the National Association for the Support of Long Term Care said on Tuesday.
Hospital group: MedPAC’s proposed post-acute payment system ‘unworkable’
A unified post-acute payment system proposed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is “unworkable as a foundation” the American Hospital Association maintains.
