Nursing homes have forced Medicare to realign its spending on patients with higher medical complexity, including those with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Medicare’s Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) significantly altered the way skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are paid, removing the financial incentive to maximize the volume of therapy services ...

A federal watchdog said Tuesday it has begun auditing nursing homes’ use of the Patient Driven Payment Model to drive skilled nursing reimbursement, and the first targeted facility is blasting the ...

More than a year and a half after implementing the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), how is your skilled nursing facility doing – operationally and financially? Chances are, you may still not know.

Achieving financial stability and growth in the current reimbursement environment is no small task for nursing home providers. Three particular challenges ...