tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 28

REHAB: Post-Acute Care Payouts Could Be Changing

CMS wants to standardize clinical data collection across different service sites.Providers' post-acute care services reimbursement could soon reflect patients' entire post-acute care episode, instead of the type of care setting.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and other stakeholders should focus on developing a payment system that addresses the "overall post-acute episode, rather than each individual component of the continuum of care," according to Center for Medicare Management director Herb Kuhn's June 16 testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means.The proposed payment changes would affect skilled nursing facilities...

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