Skilled Nursing News September 18, 2020
The federal government this week released its exact framework for distributing $2 billion in relief funding to nursing facilities that can reduce COVID-19 infections and deaths.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin sending out payments to qualifying operators next month based on September performance, with three more monthly performance periods through the end of this year.
The payments themselves will come a month after the close of each performance period, with audits to follow the month after that. The vast majority — 80% — of available cash each month will go toward rewarding operators with positive results on the infection control domain, with the remaining 20% disbursed based on the mortality measure.
To earn that extra...
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