In a LinkedIn post Tuesday, reimbursement expert Marc Zimmet cautioned providers against that “better” standard.
“Operators anticipate significant rate increases per pre-transition modeling, but without additional funds, we end up exactly where we were under the old system,” the Zimmet Healthcare Services Group president and CEO wrote. “Invariably, the same operators with high scores in one system have the highest scores in the new one because CMI is often as much about reimbursement management as it is patient acuity.”
