McKnight's December 6, 2018
Federal agencies are touting a uniform payment program for the post-acute sector as one possible way to bolster competition and choice in healthcare, according to a new report.
The 119-page analysis, issued this week by Health and Human Services and the departments of Labor and Treasury, focused on ways to increase competition in healthcare. State Medicaid programs should “embrace site neutrality as a goal,” with an eye toward delivering value “defined according to a relatively limited, straightforward, and non-gameable set of metrics.”
“Metrics should not be designed and proposed solely by the entities to which they will ultimately apply,” the authors wrote.
The idea for unified payment across PAC settings has previously been endorsed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission....
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