Vice President Linda Keegan. The cuts are much deeper than envisioned, and the impact on access to health care for our nation's elderly and disabled is potentially devastating.
Indications are that it is the sickest patients who are hardest hit.
This suggests that total cuts to skilled nursing facilities have reached 24 percent. The study details the findings of an AHCA survey of member providers. The survey tracked changes in admissions, occupancy rates, length of stay and average Medicare payments per patient per day on a quarterly basis from the first quarter of 1998 through the first quarter of 1999. Survey responses were received which account for approximately 23 percent of all Medicare days system-wide. The respondents ranged from very small, single facility nursing homes to large, multi-facility operations in 48 states.