Effective October 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin value-based purchasing for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). CMS will base penalties and rewards exclusively on one measure: all-cause, 30-day hospital readmissions. The bottom 40% of SNFs on this measure face a 2% payment penalty from Medicare. Sixty percent of the payments […]

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Research shows that patients who visit their doctors shortly after inpatient discharge prove far less likely to need readmission. Medicare is now willing to pay doctors more than ever for coordinating outpatient / community care with other providers after discharge from a hospital or nursing home. Besides the challenge of doctors not being familiar with […]