tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 19

SNFs: CMS PROPOSES SNF PAYMENT INCREASE

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will propose increasing payments to skilled nursing facilities under the SNF prospective payment system by 2.9 percent in fiscal year 2004, the agency said May 8. CMS said it was not yet ready to make case mix refinements that would more accurately reimburse SNFs for complicated patients; this means that facilities will continue to receive an estimated $1 billion in temporary add-on payments in FY 2004 under the proposed rule, which will be published May 16.   ...

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