The Patient Driven Payment Model led to a “significant reduction” in occupational and physical therapy minutes in its first few months of implementation, a new study has found. The results reinforce ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized updates to MDS 3.0 technical specifications, item sets, and the RAI User’s Manual for FY2026, effective October 1, 2025. These include ...

A new survey points to a growing gap between job satisfaction and workplace challenges among nurses working in skilled nursing facilities, with certain ...

Nursing homes have forced Medicare to realign its spending on patients with higher medical complexity, including those with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and ...

The patient-driven payment model (PDPM) has revolutionized health care for providers and their patients. These systems heighten treatment accuracy and ensure clients receive accurate billing for their ...

CMS's latest updates for Skilled Nursing Facilities combine higher payment rates with expanded quality reporting and a new audit program verifying care data accuracy. The rule recalibrates PDPM rates, ...

In a recent press release, Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), a leading healthcare interventional analytics software company for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), post-acute care providers, ...

On April 11, 2025, CMS proposed a rule that would update policies and payment rates used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for FY 2026 (Proposed Rule). The ...

More than a year and a half after implementing the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), how is your skilled nursing facility doing – operationally and financially? Chances are, you may still not know.

CMS contracted with Acumen, LLC for SNF reform and Abt Associates for HHA reform. The goal in both cases was to develop an alternative case-mix adjustment methodology, in which Medicare payments would ...