The growth of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program to over half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries has made MA payment a salient part of Medicare policy discussions. Those discussions often focus on ...
Claims data, which form the foundation of risk adjustment in payment for health care services, may reflect efforts to capture more—or more severe—clinical conditions rather than true changes in health ...
Starting Oct. 1, per diem payments to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) will be more generous on the first few days of a Medicare beneficiary’s stay, and then drop as the stay continues. That’s one of ...