Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of Medicare payment issues.
The issues on MedPAC’s December agenda were:
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Physician and other health professional services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Ambulatory surgical center services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospital inpatient and outpatient services;
- Mandated report: Expanding the post-acute care transfer policy to hospice
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Skilled nursing facility services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Home health care services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Inpatient rehabilitation facility services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Long-term care hospital services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Outpatient dialysis services
- Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospice services
- The Medicare Advantage program: Status report
MedPAC is an independent congressional agency that advises Congress on issues involving the Medicare program. While its recommendations are not binding on either Congress or the administration, MedPAC is highly influential in governing circles and its recommendations often find their way into legislation, regulations, and new public policy.
Go here for links to the policy briefs and presentations that supported MedPAC’s discussion of these issues.