Skilled Nursing Facility
We’re here to help get your Skilled Nursing Facility off the ground.
A Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) is a type of healthcare institution that meets the criteria for Medicaid and Medicare certification and reimbursement for intense skilled medical care.
Skilled medical care includes the provision of the following services as needed to provide appropriate care to patients:
- Physician
- Rehabilitation
- Nursing
- Dietary
- Pharmacy
SNFs may be hospital-based, distinct part units or free-standing.
Pharmacy Operations and 340B 340B Program Experience
Advis has been engaged in various stages of feasibility, development, and management of over 30 SNFs in the United States. Our projects for clients over the years has inludeed, but is not limited to, the following:
Feasibility
- Market and feasibility studies, including discharge, length of stay, and DRG analyses from short term acute care hospitals to determine the appropriateness of developing a skilled nursing facility
- Post-acute and skilled bed need determinations
- Strategic planning
Development
- Regulatory compliance/impact assessments
- Certificate of Need consulting, as applicable
- Licensure and Certification application and preparation
- Budget development
- Staff complement identification and hiring assistance, as needed
- Equipment list development
- Operational document development
- Mock survey assessment
Billing and Operations
- Commercial contract negotiations
- Billing management
- Revenue cylcle management assistance
Strategic Projects/Operational Management
- Operational assessments to determine compliance
- Survey preparedness assistance
- Revenue enhancement strategies
- Strategic market positioning
- Expense reduction activities
- Operational Assessment
