Medicare Program: Prospective Payment System & Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2010
August 11, 2009 This document, from the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, entitled "Medicare Program: Prospective Payment System & Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2010," shows readers the updated payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), for fiscal year (FY) 2010. In addition, it recalibrates the case-mix indexes so that they more accurately reflect parity in expenditures related to the implementation of case-mix refinements January 2006. It also discusses the results of DHHS' ongoing analysis of nursing home staff time measurement . . .
