At their public meeting last week, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed two important issues involving how Medicare pays for post-acute-care services.
First, MedPAC members suggested that implementation of a new, unified, site-neutral payment system for post-acute care, mandated by the 2014 Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT), could be completed well before the legislation’s target date of 2024. Commissioners discussed the possibility of Medicare introducing such a new system, perhaps by phasing it in over a period of years, beginning in 2021.
MedPAC commissioners also discussed recommending to Congress that it reduce Medicare payments for post-acute-care services.
Learn more about what MedPAC commissioners had to say about Medicare payments for post-acute care services in this story from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.