MedPAC Looks To Give Hospitals Flexibility In Steering Patients To Post-Acute Care Providers

Congressional Medicare advisers hope to come up with proposals that would give hospitals more flexibility in steering fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries to preferred high-quality post-acute care sites, after raising concerns Friday (Oct. 10) with private insurers' initiatives to manage post-acute care. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission rejected private insurer models used in Medicare Advantage, such as post-acute care benefits managers or beneficiary incentives for using preferred networks, because of concerns these initiatives wouldn't work within the fee-for-service framework. MedPAC chair Glenn...