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LeadingAge Ohio urges technical fix to nursing facility reimbursement amid PDPM transition
Summary
Representatives from LeadingAge Ohio told the Senate Finance Committee a statutory technical omission related to the transition from RUGS to PDPM could produce de facto cuts to nursing facility payments and asked for an omnibus amendment (No. 2,858) to direct a conversion factor and prevent unintended reductions.
Susan Wallace, testifying for LeadingAge Ohio, told the Senate Finance Committee that a technical omission in Ohio law tied to the federal transition to the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) could create substantial, unintended reimbursement cuts for nursing facilities.
"It would be about $70 on average, across the state, to nursing homes," Susan Wallace said, describing a translation problem moving from one case-mix measurement system to…
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