Medicare payments expected to decline in 2009
Billing Alert for Long-Term Care, August 1, 2008
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Hot topics at CMS’ May Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)/Long-Term Care Open Door Forum included:
The SNF PPS and consolidated billing proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2009. In May, CMS published the proposed rule for FY 2009, and without a sudden turnabout, SNFs are facing an FY 2009 negative adjustment to their Medicare Part A payments.
The FY 2006 switch from a 44-group resource utilization group (RUG) model to a 53-group model is the culprit, CMS officials said.
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