Post-Acute/Long-Term Acute Care
AHA comments to provide feedback on the work that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) are undertaking to develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system (PAC PPS). AHA's post-acute care membership…
Kenneth Bowman, division vice president for Kindred Rehabilitation Services at Kindred Healthcare, will serve as 2018 council chair of the AHA’s Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation. Derrick Jones, CEO of Lovelace UNM Rehabilitation Hospital in Albuquerque, NM, is council chair-elect and…
WASHINGTON (January 17, 2018) – The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Ken Bowman, Division Vice President, Operations - IRF, Kindred Rehabilitation Services at Kindred Healthcare, will be chair of the AHA’s Section f
MACRA Resources for Post-acute Care Providers
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed several draft recommendations for Congress, which it could vote on in January. The proposals would make recommendations to increase payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019; eliminate the 2019 and 2020…
CMS November 1 issued a final rule that updates home health prospective payment system payments for calendar year 2018 and makes changes to the HH quality reporting program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the final rule for the home health prospective payment system for calendar year 2018. For CY 2018, the rule decreases net HH payments by 0.4 percentage points, or $80 million, relative to CY 2017.