Post-Acute Care news and information

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended in March 2012 that Medicare should equalize evaluation and management office visit payment rates, regardless of whether they occur in a hospital outpatient setting or a physician's office, which would save up to $1 billion a year. On Friday it...
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The American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have agreed to join their organizations and operate under the AHCA name beginning July 1.
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Going into the New Year, there was nothing but optimism that healthcare companies would continue the buying spree that colored 2012. But mergers and acquisitions in 2013 opened with a whimper.
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The CMS center charged with testing new payment and delivery models has pinpointed post-acute care as a high-cost area in dire need of novel new approaches, and experts in the field are applauding the move.
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As hospital systems and post-acute providers escalate their purchases and start-ups of skilled nursing facilities, hospices and home health agencies, they face enormous challenges. Will they be able to create the continuum of care needed to improve quality and hold down costs? This must-attend...
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As hospital systems and post-acute providers escalate their purchases and start-ups of skilled-nursing facilities, hospices and home health agencies, they face enormous challenges. Will they be able to create the continuum of care needed to improve quality and hold down costs?
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(Story updated) President Barack Obama's highly anticipated fiscal 2014 budget released Wednesday proposes $5.6 billion in Medicare payment cuts for that year and about $400 billion in total federal healthcare savings over the next decade.
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Most hospitals in Southeast Michigan have been working on projects to reduce readmission rates as Medicare and some private payers no longer reimburse for certain patients who are re-hospitalized within 30 days.
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Too many dying elderly patients are going into skilled-nursing facilities after leaving the hospital, experts say, and Medicare's reimbursement approach is largely the reason.
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Healthcare providers know that one of the principal challenges facing our society is caring for the vast number of aging Americans requiring healthcare. More than 10,000 people a day reach Medicare age, some of whom will develop multiple chronic conditions and account for a large share of Medicare...
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