American Hospital Association March 28, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services March 28 issued a proposed rule for fiscal year 2025 for the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, which would increase aggregate Medicare spending by 4.1% or $1.3 billion compared with FY 2024. This reflects a proposed 2.8% market basket update, a 1.7 percentage-point increase to counter the agency’s market basket error in FY 2023, and a 0.4 percentage-point productivity decrease.
CMS proposes to revise regulations regarding its nursing home enforcement authority to allow the agency to impose additional financial penalties on facilities where health and safety deficiencies are identified.
While CMS does not propose to adopt or remove any quality measures from the SNF Quality...
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