McKnight's November 8, 2023
CHICAGO — I was drawn into the provider payment conversation early and often at the LeadingAge conference here this week, but the tone wasn’t quite what I expected.
After years of dark messaging on Medicare Advantage, providers and their advocates suddenly sound, dare I say it, hopeful?
Now don’t get me wrong. No one here thinks MA plans are any less threat to a providers’ bottom line than they’ve been all along. Those concerns are still rampant, especially with some plans’ daily skilled nursing payments trending below state Medicaid reimbursements.
But when it comes to some of the practices that have limited access to care and often cut skilled nursing providers out of the care continuum before patients or their...
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