Nursing Facility

The webinar provides an overview of Medicare and Medicaid nursing facility benefits and payment methods, as well as options to improve coordination and quality of nursing facility benefits for dually eligible individuals in both fee-for-service and managed care systems. 

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, attendees are able to describe:

This webinar provides an overview of two health plans' approaches to Medicare-Medicaid value based purchasing (VBP) with nursing facilities. The presentation also features a panel discussion on Medicare-Medicaid nursing facility VBP with discussants from health plans, state Medicaid departments, and nursing facilities from Arizona and Minnesota.

This presentation discusses successful approaches to building collaborative working relationships between states, health plans, and nursing facility providers in integrated Medicare-Medicaid programs

The webinar features perspectives and lessons learned from two Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (FIDE SNPs) - HealthPartners in Minnesota and Bridgeway Health Solutions in Arizona - and from The Curators of the University of Missouri, one of seven organizations participating in the CMS Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents.