Skilled Nursing News April 16, 2019
The federal government released a breakdown of strategies that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have used to successfully partner with skilled nursing facilities — a move that could indicate policymakers’ continued support of the care models.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a care coordination toolkit for ACOs that drew from focus groups and interviews with representatives from 21 ACOs. The organizations participated in the Shared Savings Program, the Next Generation ACO Model, and the Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care Model.
The relationship between ACOs and SNFs has been a somewhat thorny one, with many ACOs saving money by cutting skilled nursing spending and cracking down on patient length of stay. But in conversations with CMS detailed...
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