In skilled nursing, you're paid on the measurement — not the miracle.
Most of your Part A residents won't walk out restored to where they were. That's the reality of post-acute care, and it isn't the point. PDPM pays on an accurate functional picture. The QRP and your Five-Star rating turn on documented function. An audit turns on whether the number you reported can be reproduced. None of that requires the resident to improve — it requires the function to be measured right, the same way, every time. That's what LINDERA does.
Defensible Section GG — at admission, at discharge, from one objective source.
LINDERA measures the resident's function objectively and maps it to the GG items that drive your case-mix. The 5-day assessment and the discharge assessment draw on the same measurement method, so your PDPM Function Score is accurate — no money left on the table from understatement, no overstatement that fails an audit — and the discharge-to-admission change that feeds the QRP is measured, not estimated.
Time-stamped, video-anchored, reproducible: the kind of record that ends an ADR, TPE, or RAC review fast.
Improvement isn't the bar. Skilled need is.
Medicare covers skilled care to maintain function or slow decline, not only to improve it (Jimmo). The problem is proving it — "no improvement" is where maintenance claims get denied. LINDERA gives you the objective functional documentation that stands behind skilled and maintenance care where it's clinically warranted. The clinician makes the determination and attests; LINDERA supplies the measured basis.
And because fall risk in a SNF population is universal, objective measurement earns its keep by catching functional decline early — before the fall and the hospitalization that follow, and that your quality scores and census can't afford.
An objective picture for the conversation families need.
Families want to know where their parent really stands — and SNF conversations are often about realistic goals, not recovery. A measured, visual report shows the resident's function against age-matched norms in plain terms, so the family understands the plan, the care level, and the trajectory. Objectivity makes a hard conversation an honest one — and builds the trust that keeps families with your facility.
One capture, at the bedside or the chair.
- Staff record a short guided movement sequence on a phone or tablet — what the resident can do: a walk where possible, plus the standardized functional tests your team uses (Timed Up and Go, Tinetti, Berg), sit-to-stand, and balance. No markers, no wearables, no mats.
- LINDERA measures function objectively against age-matched norms and maps the result to your GG items.
- The objective values populate a suggested, template-parity record. The clinician reviews, edits, and attests. Suggested only — the clinician verifies; the EMR submits.
