CMS must ‘ease burdens’ if it wants more long-stay residents in value-based care: report

CMS must ‘ease burdens’ if it wants more long-stay residents in value-based care: report 
McKnights Long-Term Care News, by Kimberly Marselas; 1/29/24
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must do more to move states away from an “extremely bifurcated” Medicare and Medicaid system that sometimes leaves dually eligible beneficiaries confused about their care and coverage, analysts said Monday. Roughly 1 million long-stay nursing home residents are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. In its new report, ATI Advisory found that they were more likely to be hospitalized and have a Medicare-covered SNF stay than their community-dwelling peers.