Skilled Nursing News May 16, 2022
Amy Stulick

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) owned about 12% of all skilled nursing assets as of 2021, equating to about 1,870 facilities.

That’s according to a research letter published in JAMA Health. Researchers also examined REIT ownership trends of hospitals and other health care properties.

The data comes at a time when the Biden administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are pushing for greater transparency around nursing home ownership, and increased scrutiny around REIT and private equity ownership in particular.

CMS mid-April released groundbreaking data on nursing home ownership in an effort to bring more transparency to health care and inform future policy decisions, according to Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.

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