Webinar: The 2.4% Illusion: What the FY 2027 CMS Final Rule Really Means9/14/202610am11am
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Course Description:
This webinar translates the FY 2027 Final Rule into practical decisions facility and corporate leaders need to make now. While the rule directly governs Medicare SNF payment, its impact extends beyond Part A. Documentation standards, quality reporting performance, clinical operations, and compliance readiness can affect Medicaid programs, Medicare Advantage and managed care relationships, commercial payer expectations, and overall financial performance will be discussed. Participants will leave with practical priorities for reducing risk, strengthening documentation, and aligning clinical quality with reimbursement across payer sources.
Course objectives:
- Analyze key FY 2027 SNF Final Rule changes—including payment, Value-Based Purchasing, Quality Reporting Program, and MDS submission requirements—and their operational implications.
- Explain how reimbursement, quality, coding, and documentation expectations can affect Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, commercial payer, and overall facility performance.
- Identify areas of increased risk related to MDS accuracy, case-mix coding, quality data, medical review, and audit readiness.
- Apply practical documentation, interdisciplinary communication, and oversight strategies that support accurate reimbursement and defensible clinical decision-making.
- Develop leadership priorities to strengthen compliance, reduce reimbursement risk, and prepare the organization for evolving payer and regulatory expectations.
CE’s are available for those that listen to the sessions LIVE.
Continuing Education Information
Nurses: The Kansas Healthcare Association is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. Each offering is approved for 1.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)
Administrators: This course offering is approved for 1.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number: LTS-A0001.
Operators: This course offering is approved for 1.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for the Kansas licensed operators in the core area of Administration by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number: LTS-A0001.
Social Workers: This course is approved for 1.0 hour of continuing education hour for each webinar for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Approval number: 17-006.
Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 1.0 continuing education clock hour for each webinar for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.
CE’s will be provided to those that complete a registration and the follow up attendance verification form. Webinar log in information and dial in information will be provided prior to the webinar.