Modern Healthcare April 27, 2018
The CMS on Friday called for post-acute care providers to receive a $1 billion raise next year as part of its annual prospective pay rules for skilled nursing facilities, hospices, inpatient psychiatric facilities and inpatient rehab facilities.
The agency also proposed various policy changes for each provider type to reduce burden on them and the patients that use their facilities.
Skilled nursing facilities would receive a 2.4% bump, or $850 million more, compared to what they received this year. Last year, they garnered a 1%, or $370 million, raise.
As part of the SNF pay rule, the CMS is proposing a patient driven payment model, an new system that ties SNF payments to patients’ conditions and care needs rather than...
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