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Insights in Seniors Housing & Care

Senior Housing  |  Skilled Nursing  |  healthcare

Good Care Transitions Are Not Enough

By: Bob Kramer  |  July 12, 2019

We have to think about what’s best for this person, this patient, this resident, and carry that expertise throughout the different settings. In today’s value-based care model, the focus is increasingly on incentivizing providers to do what’s truly best for the individual, the customer. Good outcomes are the goal, and the intent is to incentivize provider behavior that will produce such outcomes, at lower cost. That’s led to the realization that we need to have good hand-offs from one setting to another.

Senior Housing  |  Skilled Nursing

NIC Skilled Nursing Data Report: Key Takeaways from the First Quarter 2019

By: Bill Kauffman  |  June 19, 2019

First year-over-year occupancy increase since January 2015 Managed Medicare revenue mix reaches time-series high of 12.1%, higher in urban areas NIC released its first quarter 2019 Skilled Nursing Data Report last week, which includes key monthly data points from January 2012 through March 2019.

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