Industry Note:
Medicare Increases Its Focus On Hospitalizations
Published on Fri Jan 10, 2014
You aren’t the only ones getting the third degree for hospital transfers. Skilled nursing facilities may soon have a new quality measure to report to CMS on nursing home resident hospitalization rates. Why? The HHS Office of Inspector Gen-eral thinks they’re transferring residents to hospitals too often, costing Medicare big bucks. So says a new OIG report examining Medicare nursing [...]