In a skilled nursing environment driven increasingly by data, providers must know which metrics matter most to their stakeholders and be willing to work hard to improve those that exist beyond the consumer’s gaze.
Many skilled nursing providers are still underusing Interim Payment Assessments under the nascent Patient Drive Payment Model, but one new pressure is driving some to submit those extra patient evaluations even when it will cost them.
Providers still struggling to accurately capture diagnoses that drive federal reimbursement will be doubly left behind as more states start to use Patient Driven Payment Model-like systems to determine long-stay Medicaid pay rates.
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