Skilled Nursing News November 3, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to further advance its overall value-based care strategy with the finalized 20224 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) – adding ways for medically complex, high-cost beneficiaries like those in nursing homes to participate in Medicare Shared Savings Programs (MSSPs).
Additionally, CMS therapy assistants can be more generally supervised for remote therapeutic monitoring services with changes in the PFS for 2024.
The agency also finalized its proposal to make payment when practitioners train caregivers to support patients with certain diseases, including dementia, when carrying out a treatment plan in 2024.
“Medicare will pay for these services when furnished by a physician or a non-physician practitioner (nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, physician...
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