The ‘price’ of value-based care

May 14, 2025acoMA, skilled nursing facilities, SNF, SNFs

The term “value-based care” is tossed around like a political football among healthcare policy makers. Nowhere is the meaning of this so variable as in nursing homes. The Nursing Home Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration project, completed over a decade ago, was not found to lower spending or improve quality. Webster’s Dictionary defines value as “the monetary worth of something,”…

Why Tech Platforms Approved By Referral Partners Are Good Tools for VBC in Nursing Homes

March 26, 2025acoACOs, CMS, nursing homes, SNFs

For organizations hoping to draw out savings from value-based care, added administrative burdens might be a source of hesitation. However, some operators are successfully turning to technology offerings that maximize reimbursement, pinpoint essential data, and include platforms already used by referral partners and managed care organizations (MAOs). AI programs can help “tease out” some of…

Inside Value-Based Care Models Eyeing a Future Without Gaps in Care Between Nursing Homes, Other Settings

February 26, 2025acoACOs, CMS, nursing homes, SNFs

The future of value-based care programs will likely focus on greater integration of care, as nursing homes and other providers in the health care continuum discover the benefits of more thoughtful discharges – less focused on swiftness and more on moving patients through a continuum of care – in order to close costly gaps in…

SNF benchmarking study paints rosy picture for value-based care, I-SNPs this year

February 4, 2025acoMA, skilled nursing facilities, SNF, SNFs

A new report is highlighting continuing trends and areas of opportunities that skilled nursing providers can consider while addressing persistent industry developments, such as increasing implementation of Medicare Advantage plans and a hyperfocus on value-based care. The trends unveiled in accounting firm Plante Moran’s “2025 Skilled Nursing Facility Medicare Benchmarking Report” should be used as…

Medicare Advantage Bundled Payment Model Tied to Less Skilled Nursing Facility Use

July 3, 2023acoACOs, CMS, nursing homes, SNFs

A Medicare Advantage bundled payment model for hip and knee replacements offered by Humana (NYSE: HUM) was associated with reduced skilled nursing facility use. These bundled payments were also linked to reduced spending overall for lower extremity joint replacements (LEJR) – while maintaining quality of care, according to a study published in JAMA Network. Of…

AHCA CEO: Value-Based Care ‘Most Exciting’ Development of His 30-Year Skilled Nursing Career

December 9, 2022acoACOs, CMS, nursing homes, SNFs

Skilled nursing providers are facing an extremely challenging operating environment, but they must keep adapting and innovating as the shift toward value-based care continues across the U.S. health care system. And in fact, providers have tremendous opportunities to seize. “Value-based care through the population health management model is the most exciting thing I’ve had the…

CMS Makes Significant Updates to ACOs But Still Leaves Nursing Homes Largely Out of Conversation

July 20, 2022acoACOs, CMS, nursing homes, SNFs

While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes to make some of the most significant changes to its accountable care organization (ACO) model since it was finalized in 2011, it doesn’t appear that such updates will have a lasting impact on the broader skilled nursing industry. If anything, only operators with their own…

Better Value-Based Care Means Fewer Nursing Homes, Summit Eldercare VP Says

October 13, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentshealthcare reform, home care, Home Health, nursing homes, SNFs, value-based care, vbc

A leader from PACE program Summit Eldercare believes there should be at least half the number of nursing homes in the country, in order to adequately provide value-based care. Instead, prospective SNF residents would be better served in community housing options. This is coupled with a trend Summit Eldercare is seeing among the SNFs it…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Post-Acute Analytics – What’s in It for My ACO?

August 31, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, cost of care, hospital readmissions, post-acute analytics, Shared Savings, SNF, SNF networks, SNFs, total cost of care, Webinar, webinars

DOWNLOAD SLIDES Learn about the types of analytics available in post-acute healthcare and how they’re being used by ACOs to: Build and sustain high-performing SNF networks Prevent hospital readmissions and adverse events Reduce total cost of care and Earn more shared savings Speaker: Janine Savage, RN, CHC Vice President, Product Management, Analytics and Business Intelligence…

ACO Participation May Keep SNFs ‘In the Game’

August 8, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsaccountable care, accountable care organizations, ACOs, skilled nursing facilities, SNFs

Although accountable care organizations (ACOs) have never been particularly popular among skilled nursing facilities, timing may be ripe to take on more risk to stay competitive in the market. ACO participation may help operators maintain referrals when so many potential residents are being diverted to home health care, hospice and other tracks along the continuum…

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