Skilled Nursing News September 26, 2025
The small size and high year-to-year variability of the financial rewards and penalties offered by value-based purchasing programs for nursing homes likely undermined the program’s effectiveness.
These are the findings of a JAMA study released Wednesday, which measured the performance of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) VBP program for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in cutting hospital readmissions. The SNF VBP incentives are based on a nursing facility’s 30-day readmission rates for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.
“This cohort study of the SNF VBP program found that financial incentives were small, with large year-to-year variability for individual SNFs. This may have limited the program’s ability to induce meaningful investments to reduce hospital readmission,” the researchers said.
The analysis included over...
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