Skilled Nursing News June 15, 2023
A higher employment of physicians and advanced practitioners at nursing homes – or SNFists – isn’t associated with statistically significant changes in rehospitalization rates.
Instead, facility adoption of these SNFists may represent a strategy by nursing homes to maintain rehospitalization rates as operators attempt to shift patient case mix in favor of those receiving post-acute care, a population that typically results in higher profit margins for nursing homes.
That’s according to a study published in JAMA Network Open, which included a national cohort of 4,482 facilities. The number of these facilities adopting SNFists increased dramatically from 13.5% in 2013 to 52.9% in 2018.
Nursing homes in Eastern states tended to have a higher prevalence of facilities that adopted SNFists. States...
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