Skilled Nursing Facility PPS
CMS recently issued final rules for fiscal year 2017 for three post-acute care prospective payment systems.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued final rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities and hospice providers for fiscal year 2017. For IRFs, CMS implements a net payment increase of 1.9%, or $145 million, compared to FY 2016.
The Senate this week approved legislation allowing public and nonprofit skilled nursing facilities to apply for support from the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Health Care Program, which provides funding for telecommunications and broadband services used to provide health care in rural communities…
CMS this week issued rules for three post-acute care settings for fiscal year 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued proposed rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities and hospice providers for fiscal year 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected six organizations to implement a new payment model in phase two of its Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents. The model seeks to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among long-stay residents…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released data on services provided to Medicare beneficiaries by more than 15,000 skilled nursing facilities in 2013. For each SNF and resource utilization group, the data sets provide the number of stays, days and beneficiaries served; and…
The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners HealthCare to test a new way of improving care and reducing costs. The waiver allows Pioneer accountable care organization beneficiaries to receive coverage for SNF services without a prior three-day…