Skilled Nursing News May 16, 2022
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.
Mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and changes of ownership for nursing...