Oct. 02, 2019
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Changes To Medicare Advantage Payment Models For Skilled Nursing Facility And Home Health Care Claims
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching new payment models for skilled nursing facilities and home health care. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT) is aligning its payment models with CMS for Medicare Advantage claims.
These changes will help support patient-focused, streamlined claims processes for skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies that are contracted to provide care and services for our Blue Cross Medicare Advantage (PPO)SM (MA PPO) members.
What Is Changing?
- Beginning October 1, 2019, BCBSMT will transition to CMS's Patient Driven Payment Model, which classifies skilled nursing facility claims into payment groups based on patient characteristics. This model replaces the Resource Utilization Group, Version IV (RUG-IV), which we will no longer support.
- Beginning January 1, 2020, BCBSMT will adopt CMS's Patient-Driven Groupings Model for home health patients, as part of the Home Health Prospective Payment System. Under this new model, payment is based on 30-day periods rather than 60 days, and therapy service thresholds are eliminated.
Medicare Advantage providers should use the new CMS classifications when submitting claims for skilled nursing facility and home health services.
Learn More
Visit the CMS website for more information, including answers to frequently asked questions about CMS's payment model for skilled nursing facilities. Also refer to the CMS website for access to an interactive grouper tool and other details on the home health patient-driven groupings model.