Nursing homes can disrupt ‘rehabbed to death’ cycle with PDPM-based palliative care

Nursing homes can disrupt ‘rehabbed to death’ cycle with PDPM-based palliative care 
Skilled Nursing News; by Kristin Carroll; 9/7/25 
... Skilled nursing facilities can leverage the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) to provide more palliative care to people near the end of life, helping to drive value-based care goals while improving the patient experience. However, much more needs to be done on the policy level to disrupt the current status quo, in which people commonly go through several care transitions near the end of life, driving up costs across the health care system while patients receive services that are not aligned with their own goals. Enabling concurrent SNF and hospice care is one change that could lead to improvement. These are assertions in the recent article “Rehab and Death: Improving End-Of-Life Care for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Beneficiaries,” published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.