Post-Acute Care Report to Congress: Prototype Unified Payment for Medicare

On July 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a prototype for a unified post-acute care (PAC) prospective payment system in a Report to Congress, required by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. The report includes a prototype unified case mix methodology using standardized patient assessment data collected from the 4 Medicare PAC settings: inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and long-term care hospitals.

More Information:

• IMPACT Act Spotlights and Announcements webpage
• Appendices