Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System & Consolidated Billing For Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates To The Quality Reporting Program And Value-Based Purchasing Program For Federal Fiscal Year 2023; Request For Information On Revising The Requirements For Long-Term Care Facilities To Establish Mandatory Minimum Staffing Levels

On April 15, 2022, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published this proposed rule regarding the Medicare program; prospective payment system & consolidated billing for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs); updates to the quality reporting program and value-based purchasing program for federal fiscal year 2023; and request for information on revising the requirements for long-term care facilities to establish mandatory minimum staffing levels. This proposed rule would update: payment rates; forecast error adjustment; diagnosis code mappings; the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) parity adjustment, the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP), and the SNF Value-Based . . .