tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 20
REGISTER WATCH
Skilled nursing facilities will see a 2.9 percent increase in their Medicare payments next year under a new proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS also says it plans to stick with current resource utilization groups for at least another year, while it continues the long process of working out case-mix refinements. Case mix refinements will allow Medicare to pay more for patients that require complicated care, but CMS says its research on the subject isn't yet advanced enough for implementation in fiscal year 2004. The decision to stick with existing RUGs means that nursing...
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