MedPAC Discusses Interim Blended Pay Systems For Post Acute Providers

Congressional Medicare advisers outlined a potential post-acute care pay system that CMS could use until a unified system is put into place. The interim system would redistribute pay across conditions within each post acute sector while keeping total payments to each setting at set levels, staff said at the commission's meeting last Thursday (Dec. 8). The IMPACT Act required MedPAC to develop a unified pay system spanning the four post-acute care settings, and the commission's June 2017 report recommended that...