Out of thousands of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) across the country, Medicare spent nearly $28 billion in 2019 on short-term care for 1.5 million beneficiaries, but in a study released this week, The U.S. Government Accountability Office argues that SNF hospital readmission rates are higher than they should be due to staffing challenges. It noted […]
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Out of thousands of nursing homes across the country, just 64 were able to go from May 2020 to this January without an outbreak of COVID-19, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in a study released on Wednesday. And out of the 13,380 nursing homes reviewed in the study, 94% experienced more than one […]
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