June 9, 2019

On the May 28 AMDA On-The-Go podcast about the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), host Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, had several questions: “What is this new thing called PDPM? How is it generated? Why do we need it? What was wrong with the current system? What does PDPM mean, if anything, to patients and medical teams? Why should those of us in skilled nursing care be concerned with, or understand, what a facility receives for payment?” Fortunately, his guest, Rajeev Kumar, MD, CMD, had answers to his questions. Read more about this podcast to prepare for PDPM to go into effect on October 1, 2019.