Long-Term Care Hospitals Close Ahead Of Pay Cuts

By John Wilkerson / August 16, 2017 at 8:03 PM
Long-term care hospitals seem to be closing or reorganizing ahead of Medicare pay cuts that take effect soon, according to industry sources and filings and news reports of those closings. The hospital sector has been tumultuous for a couple of years, and this summer the closures appear to be accelerating ahead of 2018, the first year that pay cuts will be fully implemented. The Pathway for SGR Reform Act, passed at the end of 2013, created admission criteria intended to...

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