Post-Acute Care
70th AHCA/NCAL Convention and Expo
The post-acute care sector, especially skilled nursing, continually experiences many regulatory, technology, and market shifts, changes and “passages.” The recent decline in occupancy, imminently profound changes to CMS payments (e.g., the patient driven payment model), SNF value based purchasing, quality reporting program and related annual provider updates, managed Medicaid and heightened attention by the acute care sector—these are the most profound passages yet. While the SNF sector continuously recovers from threats and changes, current circumstances suggest that the nursing centers that emerge will be more focused and serve better-defined niches, and might be smaller and more highly integrated with acute care locally and regionally—in effect, far different in many respects from today’s nursing center supply.
This program will look very briefly at the reasons for the current passage and then focus on how nursing centers are emerging as integrated, respected, and successful providers meeting the post-acute service demands of an aging population in a cash-strapped health care system.