Post-Acute Care

 

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Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) have faced significant scrutiny from Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in recent years, which has led to multiple interventions, including strict criteria for IRF patients, multiple payment cuts and other policy…
Post-acute care providers play an essential role in ensuring that patients receive the care they need to heal and have a smooth transition back to a community-based setting, typically after a discharge from a hospital. These providers face an increasingly complex regulatory and market environment…
Post-acute Care PPS Fact Sheet: Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities – A Unique and Critical Service Fact Sheet: Long-term Care Hospitals
The AHA yesterday asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to convene technical expert panels to inform and receive input from stakeholders as they develop a unified post-acute…
AHA comments to provide feedback on the work that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) are undertaking to develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system (PAC PPS). AHA's post-acute care membership…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday recommended that Congress increase Medicare base payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019, as provided under current law. In other voting, the commission recommended that the Health and Human Services Secretary…
Medicare will cover skilled nursing facility care without a three-day inpatient hospital stay for certain beneficiaries affected by this month’s wildfires in southern California, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
Learn more about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule for CY 2018 for Home Health PPS, as well as the final rules for Inpatient Rehabilitation, Skilled Nursing, and Long Term Care Hospital prospective payment systems for FY 2018.
2012 Post-Acute Care Member Dialogues HealthEast's Community Health Needs Assessment Informs Health Care System's Post-Acute Transition Held Wednesday, December 12, 2012