Skilled Nursing News April 10, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently proposed Value-Based Purchasing Program updates include staffing provisions that are being met with provider concern, although other updates should be well received once the dust settles.
Among recommended changes, CMS is proposing allowing SNFs to review and correct Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) data beginning with the fiscal 2026 program year.
Given that there was no further guidance on how the federal government’s staffing mandate aims to be fulfilled, providers who spoke to Skilled Nursing News said that having this ability to correct and review PBJ data will not achieve anything. Moreover – particularly in light of current staffing challenges and the looming, unfunded federal mandate – they are pushing back on the...
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