Post-Acute Care
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Post-acute care is a growing and essential health and social service, accounting for more $2.7 trillion spent on personal health care, and, of that, almost 15% of total Medicare spending. Post-acute care settings include long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs),鈥
Congress is back in Washington, D.C. this week with a number of major priorities to tackle before the end of the year. Congress could act as soon as this week on some of these year-end items so it is important that you weigh in now.
The unified post-acute care (PAC) payment system required by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care
Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 is not on track to protect access to medically necessary PAC services.
We appreciate CMS鈥 issuance of a streamlined rule, which allows HH agencies and their hospital and other local partners to focus on their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a new blog, Kurt Hoppe, M.D., faculty member of the Mayo Clinic and member of the AHA鈥檚 Post-acute Steering Committee, explains the importance of post-acute care providers in the nation鈥檚 COVID-19 response and recovery, as well as the newest updates to the post-acute care payment model plan 鈥撯
In a new blog, Kurt Hoppe, M.D., faculty member of the Mayo Clinic and member of the AHA鈥檚 Post-acute Steering Committee, explains the importance of post-acute care providers in the nation鈥檚 COVID-19 response and recovery, as well as the newest updates to the post-acute care payment model plan 鈥 of鈥
During this presentation, learn how one health system created a high-performing post-acute network by obtaining live patient data to implement standardized care pathways, improve care transitions, better manage patient outcomes and ultimately reduce total costs within their post-acute network.
AHA raises 鈥渟ubstantial concerns鈥 with the prototype payment model that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and RTI International are developing for the new unified post-acute care prospective鈥
Resources from the Washington Update, Review of CY 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule, and other PAC News, held July 20, 2021. Listen to the call and view the presentation and Regulatory Advisory below.
Listen to the Washington Update Call Here鈥
Post-Acute care member call that covered a preview of CY 2022 Home Health PPS Proposed Rule, and other PAC news held on June 22, 2021.