Read this article about Weighing the Promise and Perils of Skilled Nursing Ventilator Care found on the Skilled Nursing News website. The full article on this website can be found by visiting this page: https://skillednursingnews.com/2019/12/weighing-the-promise-and-perils-of-skilled-nursing-ventilator-care-under-pdpm/

Here is a little snippet from this article:

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.