Nursing Homes Eye Behavioral Health, But the Service Line Can Come With a High Price Tag

Behavioral health has become an attractive — and sorely needed — service line for skilled nursing facilities, but operators often don’t have the resources for training, and reimbursements aren’t as good as serving higher acuity patients. Isolation tied to the pandemic, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “crusade” several years ago to […]