After more than two years of a looming threat of closure, San Francisco-based Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center has been approved for Medicare recertification, according to San Francisco ...

After fighting for years to improve its care quality and avoid closure, one of the nation’s largest nursing homes has achieved Medicare recertification — clearing a vital final hurdle for its future ...

Months after the nation’s second-largest skilled nursing facility reopened after having its Medicare and Medicaid certification revoked, its newly acquired admissions prudence may be a big reason why ...

Medicare may end a person’s skilled nursing facility (SNF) coverage if the care is no longer medically necessary or if they use all their covered days in a benefit period. An SNF is a care facility ...

Medicare covers short-term care in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). However, its SNF coverage has some limitations. There are certain factors to consider when preparing for the end of Medicare’s SNF ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...