Saturday, September 5, 2026 - Updated Daily
Saturday, September 5, 2026 - Updated Daily
Healthcare reform is not a single bill. It is three separate changes moving through the federal system at once, and only one of them touches a skilled nursing facility’s day-to-day operations directly. Operators who treat…
The in-house versus contract therapy decision is usually framed as an operating question — margin, staffing burden, flexibility. It is actually a liability question, and too many SNF operators make the choice without fully pricing…
For years, healthcare operators have heard the same directive: move from volume to value. The future of healthcare reimbursement models, however, will not be settled by a slogan or a single CMS demonstration. It will…
Medicare post-acute care (PAC) reimbursement is increasingly driven by stricter federal spending controls, closer Medicare Advantage (MA) utilization oversight, and limited rate increases. Current policy priorities center on value-based accountability, shifts to lower-intensity care settings,…
The practical question is not whether value-based care affects operators. It already does. The more consequential question is whether an organization recognizes the change early enough to redesign how it manages referrals, clinical performance, workforce…
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