A recent study from University of Pennsylvania researchers reveals that among 975,179 hospital discharges who were 65 years or older, the use of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) noticeably declined over the course of the pandemic. SNF spending within post-acute care was also shown to have declined. As hospitalizations declined in March and April 2020, so […]
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The rise of value-based care has put a greater focus on costs and quality of all health care providers. While accountable care organizations (ACOs) have gotten a bad rap in the skilled nursing industry in the past, joining forces with these groups, which consist of groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, remains […]
]With the increased premium placed on preventing rehospitalizations from skilled nursing facilities, timely interventions from a doctor can potentially make a major difference. Between 2012 and 2014, about 10.4% of residents did not see a physician at all during their time in the skilled nursing facility, according to a study published Monday in the journal […]
Despite the increasing preference among payers and hospital partners to discharge residents to home health agencies, brick-and-mortar skilled nursing facilities are superior at reducing hospital readmissions — with one key caveat. After controlling for a variety of factors, residents sent from a hospital to the care of a home health agency had a 5.6-percentage-point higher […]
A key mandatory bundled payment program saved the government money almost entirely through the reduction of skilled nursing facility reimbursements, a new study from researchers at Harvard University concluded. Between 2016 and 2017, the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled payment model resulted in spending reductions of $1,084 per episode, the team concluded; after […]
Consumers and investors may rely on the five-star rating system for nursing homes to make key decisions, but a new study suggests that there isn’t much difference in resident safety between buildings along the scale. “Our results reveal that Nursing Home Compare, a policy initiative aimed at improving quality and empowering consumers to make better […]
Despite concerns about the rise of home health in the era of value-based care, institutional post-acute care (PAC) use among Medicare beneficiaries actually rose between 2000 and 2015 — while discharges to the home fell over the same time period, according to a research letter published in JAMA. Specifically, the adjusted percentage of nearly 138 […]
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