Value-based payments are coming to post-acute care, says MedPAC

Modern Healthcare September 6, 2019
Michael Brady

The drive for value-based payments continues to accelerate as the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Friday proposed a program that would tie quality to payments for skilled nursing facilities, home health services, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals.

The program builds on the commission’s previous work to develop a standard set of measures for post-acute care settings, as well as define and apply a set of principles that use Medicare payments to improve the quality of care.

MedPAC said that a unified prospective payment system across the four post-acute settings requires a uniform value incentive program. The panel, which advises Congress on Medicare policy, emphasized that beneficiaries with similar health statuses are often treated in different settings so the...

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