CMS Phase Two Solicitation For The Initiative To Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents

In this funding opportunity released in August 2015, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sought expressions of interest from organizations participating in phase one of the Initiative To Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents. In phase two, the organizations will implement new payment models intended to help reduce the prevalence of hospitalization among nursing facility residents. The model provides additional funding to the nursing facility and to physicians to encourage the nursing facility to provide a more intensive level of care, rather than transfer residents to a hospital. The payment model targets six conditions that are . . .