Solution
Due Diligence on a Skilled Nursing Acquisition
The short version
Before you buy a skilled nursing facility, you need four things quickly: what it’s actually paid, how it rates on quality and staffing, how its finances look, and whether it’s genuinely strong or just sitting in a strong market. SNF Insights puts those side by side so you can size up a target in minutes instead of weeks.
Why the usual reports fall short
A star rating tells you how a facility looks on quality, but not what it collects from payers. Cost reports arrive on a lag. And a facility can look good simply because its whole local market looks good. To evaluate a target honestly you need the full picture in one place, and you need to compare it to the right peers, not a state or national average.
What it is actually paid
Underwriting on Medicare and Medicaid assumptions alone misses a large part of the revenue picture. SNF Insights includes payer-negotiated commercial rates drawn from Transparency in Coverage data, so you can see what the target is actually contracted to receive, not just what a rate sheet implies.
The quality and staffing risk
Quality and staffing are where hidden liability lives. In one view you can see the target’s CMS Five-Star ratings, the deficiencies behind them, and its payroll-verified staffing levels and turnover. If you want the mechanics behind those numbers, see our guides on the Five-Star rating, PBJ staffing data, and deficiencies and F-tags.
Strong facility, or strong market?
This is the question that changes a valuation. SNF Insights benchmarks the target against its nearest comparable facilities, so you can tell whether its numbers reflect its own performance or a favorable local market. A target that only looks good because everyone nearby looks good is a very different investment than one that outperforms its peers.
Evaluate a target in one screen
Bring a facility up in SNF Insights and see its rates, quality, staffing, financials, and true-peer comparison together, so your diligence starts from the full picture.
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