Medicare and Medicaid
Senate Aging Committee Hearing Spotlights Need to End Fragmented SNF Policymaking
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, April 30th, 2012
2012 APR 30 -- Emphasizing the need to end fragmented policymaking for the U.S. skilled nursing facility (SNF) sector to help sustain quality gains and boost cost efficiency, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (AQNHC) praised U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) for convening today's Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing, and said repeated SNF Medicare funding cuts are no replacement for intelligent reforms that help coordinate care for an aging, increasingly disparate, higher acuity patient population.
"Because Medicare and Medicaid together pay for the care of three out of every four SNF patients, it is crucial to assess not just the impact both...
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