PDPM enabled skilled nursing facilities to see a 9% increase in Medicare reimbursement in the early days of the outbreak, according to analysis by Zimmet Healthcare Services Group and Claim Outcomes and Reimbursement Essentials, a data firm.
The report, released in June, was pointed in its critique of PDPM’s predecessor, RUG-IV, saying it “would have been a fiscal disaster for SNFs dealing with COVID.”
