Skilled Nursing News February 24, 2020
As the skilled nursing industry struggles to adapt to a new Medicare payment landscape, in-house Medicare Advantage plans have emerged as one of the hottest topics among leaders — while the space’s publicly traded behemoth has thrown its full support behind the separate accountable care organization (ACO) model.
There may not be one set answer for an operator mulling the decision between launching an Institutional Special Needs Plan (I-SNP) and joining on with an ACO, but a pair of experts from both sides of the equation argued that it’s important to just ask the question, or risk getting left behind.
“The world is moving to value-based care,” René Lerer, CEO of I-SNP insurer Longevity Health Plan, said last week during...