Skilled Nursing News September 14, 2025
Hospital length of stay has been increasing more dramatically for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries than traditional Medicare beneficiaries, and this trend is especially pronounced for people who are discharged to a skilled nursing facility.
This is according to an article recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In the third quarter of 2023, hospital patients on Medicare Advantage were 3.1 percentage points more likely than similar patients on traditional Medicare to have a stay of at least 14 days before being discharged to a SNF, according to the study, which analyzed data from 2017 to through Q3 2023.
Looking at all hospital patients – not just those discharged to a SNF – the probability of a Medicare Advantage beneficiary having a...
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