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The pandemic has thrown the long-term care industry into a tailspin.
Fearful of contracting the virus, patients have stayed away from nursing homes, causing a plunge in census numbers for facilities that rely on long-term care residents, short-term rehabilitation referrals and transfers from hospitals.
“Is the industry going to downsize? Yes,” said Andy Edeburn, a principal at Premier, a group purchasing and consulting organization. “Not all nursing homes are going to come back.”
Nursing home occupancies are at an all-time low and facilities are struggling to stay open. Nursing home occupancy dropped 16.5 percentage points to 68.5% in January 2021 from 85% in January 2020, according to the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living. In addition, 143 facilities closed or merged with other organizations in 2020 and 1,670 are projected to do so in 2021, AHCA/NCAL estimated.
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Only a few months after CMS massively changed how skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed for therapy services, the pandemic hit and threw long-term care operations into a tailspin.
That makes it difficult to determine exactly how the change affected therapy services and therapists in nursing homes, researchers say.
A report published in Health Affairs on Monday shows that therapist staffing levels were cut in anticipation of and after the change to the patient-driven payment model in October 2019. The new model replaced the long-standing Resource Utilization Group payment system, known as RUG, with general support from the post-acute care industry. But, after the fourth quarter of 2019, there isn t reliable data to further track the changes, the authors said.
Skilled-nursing facilities cut therapist staffing levels after the transition to PDPM and did not offset those changes with other hiring, according to a new study.