The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (AQNHC) has obtained a 50-state analysis of the effects of looming Medicare cuts.
The AQNHC, Washington, says it wants to use the data analysis, which comes from consultants at Avalere Health L.L.C., Washington, to help shape discussions during the August congressional recess.
Various federal laws and regulations could impose a total of $65 billion in cuts on nursing homes and their patients over a 10-year period, with about $4 billion of the cuts set to come during the federal fiscal year that will start Oct. 1, the AQNHC says.
The cuts affect jobs as well as the nursing home patients, because nursing homes employ about 1.7 million people, the group says.