Skilled Nursing News January 26, 2022
As the I-SNP model continues to expand across the skilled nursing industry, some see it as one way to effectively push telehealth services into smaller, rural facilities that don’t have the infrastructure to support the services by themselves.
“We’re seeing a lot of traction in the I-SNP model,” TapestryHealth Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer Mordy Eisenberg told Skilled Nursing News. “Especially provider-owned I-SNPs. For example, let’s say a provider has 60 buildings and 40 of them are large enough or have a large enough profile for I-SNPs. We’d focus on those, but using telemedicine, we can bring the I-SNP to every one of their homes, even the smallest, most rural ones.”
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