By Kristin Carroll Skilled nursing facilities can leverage the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) to provide more palliative ...

At the heart of the new Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is a comprehensive revision to the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI), the set of rules upon which Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement ...

How Does PDPM Optimization Improve Facility Financial Performance? Optimizing PDPM services includes training staff, accurately assessing patients and collaborating with care teams.

Real-time reimbursement integrity: PDPM without the guesswork PDPM was designed to align reimbursement with patient complexity.

A change in how the federal government reimburses skilled nursing facilities for therapy services is shaking up the industry, some say resulting in a “profits over people” focus.

The PDPM model bases reimbursement on a patient's condition and what care is needed. It also relaxed some of the rules around group therapy, allowing up to 25% of a patient's therapy to be in ...