Federal regulators are weighing changes to the three-year-old Patient Driven Payment Model to account for missed opportunities — and potentially inappropriate coding choices — a top Medicare official ...
After much hype, trepidation and, for some providers, feverish planning, the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) took effect in October. There has been much speculation about how the new system, ...
In what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today described as a “parity adjustment recalibration,” the agency said it will increase payments to skilled nursing facilities by 4%, or ...
Skilled nursing facilities get a 4.1% payment increase for 2025, according to a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule updating Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective ...
CMS contracted with Acumen, LLC for SNF reform and Abt Associates for HHA reform. The goal in both cases was to develop an alternative case-mix adjustment methodology, in which Medicare payments would ...