Economic Trends | Senior Housing | Skilled Nursing
By: Bill Kauffman | August 17, 2016
Buyer Type Activity in the Second Quarter As I described in Part I of this two-part series on transactions volume in the second quarter of 2016, the decrease in transactions volume was due to a decrease in all buyer types: the public type (any publicly-traded company), the private type (not publicly traded, such as a private REIT, single owner, or partnership), and the institutional type (equity funds that manage pension money or other types of institutional money).
Economic Trends | Senior Housing | Skilled Nursing
By: Bill Kauffman | August 15, 2016
The second quarter of 2016 marked a significant drop in volume for closed seniors housing and care property sales transactions. Volume in the second quarter registered $1.6 billion. That includes $1 billion in seniors housing and $600 million in nursing care. The total volume was down 61% from the previous quarter’s $4.3 billion and down 81% from the second quarter of 2015, when volume came in at $8.7 billion.
Economic Trends | Regulatory Environment | Skilled Nursing
By: Liz Liberman | August 03, 2016
Managed care is an all-encompassing term that covers a variety of methods to pay for healthcare outside the norm of fee-for-service. Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are a form of managed care, as are Managed Medicaid plans. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) also fall under this umbrella. With the exception of MA, managed care is a relatively new idea in terms of health care financing. Generally, with managed care, payments flow through a risk-bearing third-party company to health care providers. The third party’s goal is to manage a patient’s total cost of care so that the total payment made by the third party is smaller than the initial bill. How this system is regulated is still evolving; CMS is committed to moving away from traditional fee-for-service payments, and managed care has a role to play in attaining that goal.
Economic Trends | Regulatory Environment | Skilled Nursing
By: Liz Liberman | July 27, 2016
All Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities are subject to the Five-Star Quality Rating System and Nursing Home Compare, which were established, implemented, and maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). Both programs use metrics to judge the quality of skilled nursing properties. Nursing Home Compare is a website where consumers can gather information about quality metrics for every eligible skilled nursing property to use for comparison shopping. Most of the quality metrics displayed on Nursing Home Compare are used as part of the input to establish a skilled nursing property’s Five-Star rating, with five-star facilities considered the highest quality.
