“What Would It Take to Transform Post-Acute Care?” 2019 Conference Proceedings on Re-envisioning Post-Acute Care

Significant health care reforms resulting from the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT Act) and Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) have important implications for patient selection, payment, and outcomes. These reforms promote new relationships between clinical care sites through joint accountability for costs and development of standard outcomes. The reforms also place a new emphasis on clinical outcomes —such as reducing hospital readmissions—as a part of new value-based payment models.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - March 16, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Christine D. Jones, Kathryn A. Nearing, Robert E. Burke, Hillary D. Lum, Rebecca S. Boxer, Jennifer E. Stevens-Lapsley, Mustafa Ozkaynak, Cari R. Levy Tags: Editorial Source Type: research