Nursing Facility Payment Method Options For Florida Medicaid

On August 9, 2016, Navigant released this report on nursing facility payment method options, prepared for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). The report explains that a fully prospective payment system would eliminate the need for retroactive rate adjustments, which will allow nursing facilities and AHCA to record final reimbursement amounts in a more expedient manner, and that a payment method in which rates are more uniform across facilities will generate more incentive for nursing facilities to control costs.

Key themes from the report include: guiding principles in creating payment methods, a review of the current payment method . . .