{"id":263,"date":"2015-08-02T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:14:35","slug":"why-skilled-nursing-medicare-payments-will-be-lower-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Why Skilled Nursing Medicare Payments Will Be Lower Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"entry-author\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\">Tim Mullaney,\u00a0seniorhousingnews.com)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Providers that receive Medicare reimbursements for skilled nursing services will be seeing lower payment levels next year than the government initially proposed, due to updated economic data.\u00a0For fiscal year 2016, total SNF payments will increase by an aggregate $430 million from 2015 levels, as opposed to the $500 million increase that the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) floated in April. <a href=\"http:\/\/seniorhousingnews.com\/2015\/08\/01\/why-skilled-nursing-medicare-payments-will-be-lower-than-expected\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Notice: The \u201cRead more\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Tim Mullaney,\u00a0seniorhousingnews.com)\u00a0 Providers that receive Medicare reimbursements for skilled nursing services will be seeing lower payment levels next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}