Skilled Nursing News May 7, 2024
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials offered more clarity on the updates to the Value-Based Purchasing program for nursing homes, including insights into the usefulness of the facility-level early look reports and details on three new quality measures that will now be tied to incentive payments in fiscal 2025.
These proposed changes to the VBP program are considered to be among the most important ones contained in CMS’ recently released Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System rule (SNF PPS) for next year.
In a webinar hosted by the Division of Value Incentives and Quality Reporting at CMS recently, officials delved into details of how CMS will now calculate performance scores and collect data on the new quality...