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The rise of value-based care has put a greater focus on costs and quality of all health care providers.
While accountable care organizations (ACOs) have gotten a bad rap in the skilled nursing industry in the past, joining forces with these groups, which consist of groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, remains a path for SNFs to integrate themselves into the health care system.
With the pandemic having decimated occupancy, now may be a time for SNF providers to reconsider their models. Some see now as the time for SNFs to branch out from their traditional silos and work more closely with health systems, including by taking on financial risk.