With a substantial amount of reimbursement being at stake, the effect of the change from the PHQ-9 to the PHQ-2 to 9 is the “million-dollar question” facing operators, Alicia Cantinieri, vice president of MDS policy and education for Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, said at the firm’s recent “Roaring Reimbursement” conference in Connecticut.
While the exact consequences of the PHQ switch remain to be seen, the new interview parameters are going to “change things pretty drastically,” Ignite Medical Resorts VP of Clinical Reimbursement Shawna Rainey told Skilled Nursing News at the Zimmet conference.
