AHCA Product of the Week 2025 – SNF VBP Essentials

Four additional CMS skilled nursing facility value-based purchasing (SNF VBP) measures take effect October 1, 2024 that will determine Medicare Part A rates beginning October 1, 2026. These measures are in addition to the four measures already in place that impact rates starting on October 1, 2025.  

Administrators, DONs, finance, QAPI, and operations leaders should be familiar with the eight measures and understand how they impact future reimbursement rates. SNF VBP Essentials is a one-hour course that details the new CMS measures and discusses how CMS calculates VBP measures, risk adjustment, facility score and payment adjustments. The course provides instructions on using a SNF VBP prediction calculator tool (included with the course) that helps estimate the financial impact the measures will have on a nursing facility’s Medicare Part A revenue.  

The training delves into all eight measures which are: 

•  Hospital Readmissions 
• Healthcare Acquired Infection Hospitalizations 
• Long-stay Hospitalizations 
• Discharge to Community 
• Discharge Function Score 
• Total Nurse Turnover 
• Total Nurse Hours Per Resident Day 
• Long-stay Falls with Major Injury 
• Understanding all eight measures and adopting best practices now will help avoid Part A payment penalties and potentially boost future incentive payments.   

Presenter: Kiran Sreenivas, Vice President, Research, Integrated Networks & Research, AHCA 

Cost: $40 AHCA Members | $80 Non-Members 

1.25 NAB CEs and 1.0 contact hour upon course completion. 

Click here to register.