Skilled Nursing News May 3, 2020
As skilled nursing facilities across the country locked down to try to curb the spread of COVID-19, try to stay on top of constantly changing guidance from both the state and federal level, and navigate new mandates to report COVID-19 cases, it might be easy for them to overlook reaching out to insurers working as their Medicare Advantage payers.
But those managed care companies are just as worried as the general public, according to Longevity Health Plan CEO Rene Lerer, and SNFs need to make sure they’re communicating accordingly.
“There’s a real concern from the insurers about what’s going on in the nursing homes,” he said on a Thursday webinar hosted by Skilled Nursing News. “Whether it’s appropriate and whether...