Operational and financial challenges can make it difficult for nursing homes and other health care facilities to transition to the federal government’s Value-Based Program (VBP), which ties payment to quality and outcomes. An editorial published in JAMA Internal Medicine Monday expresses the need for more data and improved measurement of outcomes, better methods of financial […]
JAMA Internal Medicine
Certain nursing home characteristics — specifically those with higher Medicare star ratings, longer-tenured staff, non-profit and non-chain structures — are tied to better staff and resident vaccination rates, a JAMA Internal Medicine research report found. According to data released on Thursday by JAMA, for-profit ownership was linked to a 2.5 percentage point decrease in staff […]
Patients are discharged from skilled nursing facilities at notably higher rates around day 20 of their Medicare benefit period, compared with day 19 or day 21, a study published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine found. The authors of the study, who hailed from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, studied patients discharged […]
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