For skilled nursing facilities, the Medicare SNF 3-day rule can make it difficult to place the right patients in the right setting at the right time. The 3-day rule requires that a Medicare beneficiary...
Has MedPAC been infiltrated?
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 17, 2015
Don’t look now, but it appears that nursing home owners might have sneaked one of their own onto the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
Proposed Medicare commission could disregard funding realities
By
Liza Berger
Jul 28, 2009
I don’t know about you, Readers, but this push for an Independent Medicare Advisory Council (IMAC) makes me nervous. If approved by Congress, this new body could make it more difficult for nursing homes...
SNF Medicare margins: What MedPAC doesn’t know
By
Betsy Rust
Apr 29, 2016
The articulation of data is vitally important, and MedPAC is not the only entity interpreting, or misinterpreting, cost report and claim data.