Size of the Financial Incentives in Medicare's Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) program is the largest test to date of the use of financial incentives to incentivize reductions in hospital readmissions from SNFs. Initial evaluations suggest the program was not successful, and a key question is to what extent the size and distribution of the financial incentives may have played a role.

Objective

To measure the scale and scope of the SNF VBP financial incentives in the first 3 years of the program in which incentives were assessed (2019-2021).

Design, setting, and participants

This is a retrospective cohort study of eligible stays, associated Medicare reimbursement amounts, financial incentive percentage assessed by SNF VBP, and proportion of financial incentive to SNF net ope

SUBMITTER: Burke RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461404 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature