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Our cross-sectional study demonstrated that vertical integration of SNFs in a hospital network was associated with higher rates of SNF utilization and lower readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries undergoing elective total hip replacements with lower overall payments.
- Skilled Nursing Facility Performance and Readmission Rates ...
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) can avoid a penalty...
- Skilled Nursing Facility Performance and Readmission Rates ...
Feb 28, 2022 · Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) can avoid a penalty through low baseline readmission rates or improvement over time. Objective To assess the baseline performance and improvement over time of SNFs in the SNF VBP program.
Our results indicate that hospitals that vertically integrated into SNF were associated with a reduction in hospital 30-day pneumonia readmission rates (β = −0.233, p = .039). Vertical integration into SNF was not significantly associated with 30-day HF readmissions.
Jan 11, 2021 · Health care providers at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are increasingly expected to optimize care of post-acute patients to reduce hospital readmissions and contain costs. To achieve these goals, providers need to understand their patients’ risk of hospital readmission and how this risk is associated with health care costs.
Although having a hospital-based skilled nursing facility (HBSNF) in a hospital could help in improving care for patients needing short-term skilled nursing or rehabilitation services, little is known about HBSNFs’ association with hospitals’ readmission rates.
Mar 1, 2021 · 30-day hospital readmissions are an indicator of quality of care; hospitals are financially penalized by Medicare for high rates. Numerous care transition processes reduce readmissions in clinical trials.
Among skilled nursing facilities in the US during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and prior to the availability of COVID-19 vaccination, mortality and functional decline significantly increased at facilities with active COVID-19 cases compared with the prepandemic period, while a modest statistically significant decrease in mortality ...
