Updated Guidance For Practitioner Participation In The Initiative To Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents, – Payment Reform

In this guidance released on April 11, 2016, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) explained details about phase two of the Initiative To Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents. In phase two, the participating 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 the cause of about . . .