Hospital-Based and Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facilities: Any Cause for Differential Medicare Payments?
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) were eliminated by the SNF prospective payment system initiated in 1998. Closures and high negative margins of hospital-based facilities have prompted consideration of the need to revisit payment adj...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2003-02-01
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| Series: | Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_40.1.94 |