McKnight's April 2, 2021
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is urging Congress to eliminate the current value-based purchasing program for skilled nursing facilities and establish an alternative that builds in more equitable incentives for providers.
Commission members on Thursday unanimously approved the recommendation to Congressional lawmakers. They also overwhelmingly approved an additional proposal that calls on federal health agencies to finalize development of and implementation of a patient-experience reporting measure for SNFs.
The group argued the current VBP program has several flaws, including assessing SNF performance based on a single outcome measure (hospital readmission), not using all withheld funds, and using rewards too small to encourage all providers to improve care quality.
The recommended replacement would depend on multiple performance measures focused...
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