The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has said it’s close to completing a plan for unified, site-neutral post-acute payments.
The new system would focus on patient characteristics, rather than setting of care and correct some of the “shortcomings” of the current payment systems, a MedPAC policy analyst said in March.
The unified system would be used by skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies, among others.
Some MedPAC members suggested the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services test the system with volunteer post-acute providers. They were scheduled to vote on the system in April and report to Congress in June.
From the April 01, 2016 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News