Post-Acute/Long-Term Acute Care
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to articulate how it intends to coordinate implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting and Value-Based Purchasing programs with the Nursing Home Quality Initiative.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a proposed rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for the skilled-nursing facility prospective payment system for fiscal year 2016. The rule would increase aggregate payments by 1.4%, or $500 million, in FY 2016…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should seek legislation to reduce swing-bed reimbursement rates for critical access hospitals from 101% of reasonable costs to the daily rates paid under the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, the Department of Health and Human…
Maureen Banks will lead the AHA’s Constituency Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation as 2015 chair of its governing council. Banks is president of Spaulding Hospital Cambridge, Spaulding Hospital Cape Cod, Spaulding Hospital North Shore, Spaulding Skilled Nursing Facilities, and chief…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today added star ratings to the Dialysis Facility Compare website, which are based on nine of the 11 quality measures reported on the website in 2014. The website no longer includes the measures for URR dialysis adequacy and Hemoglobin greater than…