Many operators are seeking tactical guidance as the implementation date for Medicare’s Patient Driven Payment Model nears. The changed assessment schedule provides a good place to focus, according to an article from an industry capital provider.
There, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added two additional optional assessments — the interim payment assessment and optional state assessment. Each was created to let skilled care providers make clinical changes to drive per-day adjustments, write Bradley Granger and Daniel Cafarella, of Lancaster Pollard.
Their article also explores changes to Minimum Data Set coding requirements, with modifications to about 80 Minimum Data Set codes to implement the new rule’s components.
Read the whole PDPM analysis here, along with a second article released Monday on the small but growing market for special needs plans.
