tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 23

LONG-TERM CARE: MedPAC Wants To Subtract Add-On Payments

Proposal would also nix inflation adjustment.Medicare revenues for long-term care providers won't crash come October. But the reprieve delivered in a recent rule refining how Medicare pays nursing homes won't save providers in the long run without planning - and a careful review of the new rule. "We're cautiously optimistic," offers Stephen Guillard, chairman of the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. "But we will spend the coming days closely reviewing the proposed rule."In the months preceding the proposed rule's posting May 13, providers feared the worst. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission had recommended - for...

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