Size of the Financial Incentives in Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program
This cohort study of the SNF VBP program found that financial incentives were small, with large year-to-year variability for individual SNFs. This may have limited the program's ability to induce meaningful investments to reduce hospital readmission.
Authors
- Robert E. Burke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9521-8699)
- Scott Appel
- Jonathan Heintz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-9220)
- Liam Rose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7195-2939)
- Franya Hutchins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-2632)
- Rachel M. Werner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3435-4221)
- Atul Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8446-1909)
- Syama R. Patel
- Julie Norman
Institutions
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Philadelphia VA Medical Center (US)
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.33369
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82
Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Institutes of Health
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality