Skilled Nursing News July 16, 2019
The refrain has been nearly constant in the skilled nursing space: In order to win precious referrals in new payment models, operators need to woo hospital partners with strong data on outcomes.
But a new study says all that effort might not matter much at all.
A team of researchers could identify no significant changes in hospital referral patterns among participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) program between 2010 and 2015, according to results published this week in the American Journal of Managed Care.
“We found no discernible changes in two measures of hospital–SNF integration among BPCI participants compared with matched controls over the study period,” the team wrote. “These results are consistent with...
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