While some nursing homes have earned incentive pay for reducing their hospital readmissions, the decade-old program that pays for those bonuses has not led to any widespread improvements, a ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...

The Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program is shifting from a single readmission-focused metric to a broader, multi-measure evaluation of SNF performance. Starting in FY 2026, CMS is ...

On April 11, 2025, CMS proposed a rule that would update policies and payment rates used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for FY 2026 (Proposed Rule). The ...

A Medicare hospital quality improvement program has failed to yield reduced mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure 4 years into the program, a new study has found.

Although 30-day mortality rates did not worsen for Medicare beneficiaries at hospitals with high proportions of Black patients compared with other hospitals, gaps in outcomes widened for Black adults ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...