Beginning in 2025, cuts to the Medicare Advantage plans could result in higher costs for some nursing homes.
Changes to Medicare Advantage plans could result in many nursing homes seeing lower reimbursements for patients in 2025.Rate adjustments affect seniors and their health care providers each year, whether they're on traditional Medicare or the privatized Medicare Advantage plans.The lower reimbursements will start impacting nursing homes next year, as base payments on Medicare Advantage plans were cut by an average of 0.16 percent for 2025 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
'Medicare Advantage routinely and systematically already denies care to skilled nursing care when original Medicare has no such problem,' Westfall told Newsweek. 'To the extent that a miniscule reimbursement cut to MA, overall, affects all areas, they will use this excuse to deny even more care in the skilled nursing area.
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