Skilled Nursing News July 22, 2021
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives this week introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen Medicare’s value-based care models and accountable care organizations (ACOs), among other alternative payment models (APMs).
Doctors, hospitals and other providers make up an ACO — the group coordinates care for Medicare patients while limiting extraneous services and preventing medical errors. The better the outcome, the more bonuses an ACO may receive.
Within the context of a skilled nursing facility, ACOs have been a contentious program, with some operators considering starting their own ACOs after the initial push for Medicare Advantage and value-based models neglected to include SNFs in the conversation.
ACO-SNF partnerships are looking better to ACOs at this point in the pandemic though, as they...
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