Skilled Nursing Facility Performance and Readmission Rates Under Value-Based Purchasing.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The new Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing program (SNF VBP) seeks to improve patient outcomes by awarding financial incentives or penalties based on 30-day hospital readmission rates. Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) can avoid a penalty through low baseline readmission rates or improvement over time.

Objective

To assess the baseline performance and improvement over time of SNFs in the SNF VBP program.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study examined readmission rates, financial penalties and incentives, and facility and patient characteristics associated with these outcomes at 14 959 US SNFs that received Medicare payments between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2019.

Main outcomes and measures

Outcomes

SUBMITTER: Burke RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8886527 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature