Tag: post-acute care

NAHC Supports The Resetting the IMPACT Act

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has joined the other major post-acute care organizations (American Health Care Association, American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association, National Association of Long Term Hospitals, Leading Age+VNAA) to commend members of Congress for the introduction of The Resetting the IMPACT Act (TRIA) of 2021 and urge legislators to…

Research: Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy Provide Significant Rehabilitative Value in Post-acute Care

The following is reprinted from the (AOTA). Study across 1.4 million Medicare cases indicates patients receiving these therapies have better quality of life and fewer hospital readmissions. A first-of-its-kind study shows that occupational therapy and physical therapy provide functional benefits to most patients in post-acute care (PAC) settings, with evidence of significant rehabilitative value across 1.4 million…

New NAHC Webinar: Post-Acute Care: What Is the Future Likely to Bring?

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00-1:30 PM Eastern REGISTER NOW On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) will partner with the American Health Law Association (AHLA) for their presentation on “Post-Acute Care: What Is the Future Likely to Bring?” The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted the entire post-acute care…

Study: Medicare Home Health Benefit Not Sufficient to Meet Needs of Post-Acute Beneficiaries

Policy changes could increase value of home health benefit in COVID-19 era Home health care would be very effective providing services to Medicare beneficiaries, but the current design of the home health benefit is insufficient to meet the needs of post-acute beneficiaries, concludes a new study from the Commonwealth Fund. The report’s authors believe policy…

President’s Budget Reinforces Goal of Unified Post-Acute Payment System, Takes Aim at Hospice in Nursing Homes

On Monday, February 10, 2020, a general outline of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2021 budget was submitted to Congress. The FY2021 budget proposes to reduce spending on programs administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years, including $500 billion from Medicare and $920 billion…

Study: Post-Acute Care Medicare Spending Slowed in Recent Years

Post-acute care Medicare spending slowed considerably for beneficiaries age 65 and older between 2012 and 2015, after years of steady growth in the 1990s and early years of the 21st century, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. Post-acute care spending increased from $1248 to $1424 per beneficiary among Medicare beneficiaries age 65…

MedPAC Data Book Reveals Trove of Key Home Health Stats

The performance of America’s home health agencies on some key quality measures improved markedly in recent years, according to a trove of new statistics revealed in the June 2018 MedPAC Data Book. The average share of a home health agency’s beneficiaries with improvements in walking increased from 58 percent in 2013 to 69 percent in…

MedPAC Considers Unified Payment Options and Metrics

In the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) latest installment towards the development of a unified post-acute care (PAC) prospective payment system (PPS), commissioners received a presentation on possible outcome measures from MedPAC staff. This presentation was followed by a robust discussion. Rationale on the need to develop measures included the ability to compare metrics across…