The article is from December 5, 2019, and was written by Maggie Flynn and published on the Skilled Nursing News website, click here to read the article on the Skilled Nursing News website.

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Among the many unknowns of the new Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is its effect on the types of patients coming into the skilled nursing facility.

But one place to watch resident patterns is around the addition of ventilator services and care to facilities — especially if they haven’t offered those options before.

Respiratory therapy — along with ventilator care — provides considerable financial benefits for SNFs under the new Medicare model. For one thing, ventilator and tracheostomy care automatically place residents in the highest reimbursement case-mix groups for the Nursing component of PDPM, Melissa Sabo, chief operating officer at Gravity Healthcare Consulting, told SNN earlier this year.

“Everybody’s interested in it, because once you start going through the numbers, the reimbursements are just unbelievable,” she said.

The ventilator program at Eastbrook Healthcare Center is designed to help patients with many levels of respiratory support needs. For more information about our Eastbrook’s services, please call them at 216-282-9082. Visit Eastbrook’s ventilator unit page to learn more. (https://eastbrookhealth.com/ventilator-unit/)