In light of the current operating environment that SNFs face, Marc Zimmet, president and CEO of Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, said the parity adjustment would be at best counterproductive and at worst dangerous, as revenue distribution continues to be the greatest threat to stability.
“SNFs were uniquely burdened by the pandemic. CMS should consider the outsized role skilled nursing played through the pandemic by treating-in-place and caring for higher acuity patients,” Zimmet wrote in an analysis of the proposed recalibration, shared on LinkedIn on Monday.
