tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 29

LONG-TERM CARE: LTC Providers Must Be Ready To Move On P4P

Pay attention to quality measures, or P4P transition will hurt more.If Medicare links reimbursement to a long-term care facility's performance, providers must be up to the challenge or their rates could take a dive. Nursing homes should take the prospect of a pay-for-performance system seriously, starting now, says Steve Jones of Moore Stephens Lovelace in Clearwater, FL.At a June 30 Skilled Nursing Facility/Long-Term Care Open Door Forum, officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acknowledged that plans for a P4P payment scheme are already underway. That means that the feds' plan to link long-term...

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