For the post-acute healthcare industry, last year was full of fear and uncertainty. After the initial (and prolonged) tumult of the Affordable Care Act and the eventual (uneasy) alliance the industry formed with it, the new Trump administration seemed poised to shake everything up again. Well, the dust has cleared after the administration’s first year, […]
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The shift away from fee-for-service toward value-based care is fully underway, and the reason for this move is clear. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing. Currently, healthcare represents almost 20 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), and those costs are growing faster than the economy can keep up. The biggest steps toward curtailing healthcare expenses including […]
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Many healthcare professionals – especially those connected to skilled nursing facilities (SNF) – are extremely worried about the proposed tax plan coming out of the House of Representatives. The House recently passed a $4.1 trillion budget plan that promises deep cuts to social programs, including removing nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid’s budget over the next […]
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Hospitals that use a preferred network of post-acute care facilities reduce their readmission rates four times faster than hospitals that don’t. A recent study has found that these providers were able to cut readmission rates from nursing homes by 6.1 percent between 2009 and 2013. Hospitals that did not have a network saw only a […]
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