ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2021
Policy in Clinical Practice: Choosing Post-Acute Care in the New Decade.
Article in Journal of hospital medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Patient-Driven Grouping Model and Home Health Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2026Article
- Navigating Postacute Care Options for Patients After Hospital Discharge: A Review.JAMA internal medicine · 2026Review
- Is More Rehabilitation Associated with Less Inpatient Post-Acute Care Use Among Older Adults with Prolonged Hospitalization?Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Delayed Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Disorders of Consciousness: Practical and Theoretical Considerations.Neurocritical care · 2025Review
- Survival, Function, and Cognition After Hospitalization in Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Establishing Medicaid incentives for liberating nursing home patients from ventilators.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
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Abstract
Nearly half of hospitalized Medicare patients in 2018 were discharged to post-acute care (PAC), accounting for approximately $60 billion in annual spending. There are four PAC settings, and these vary in the intensity and complexity of medical, skilled nursing, and rehabilitative services provided; each setting uses a separate payment system. Due to considerable variation in PAC use, with concerns that similar patients can be treated in different PAC settings, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently introduced several major policy changes. For home health agencies (HHAs) and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), CMS implemented new payment models to better align payment with patients' care needs rather than the provision of rehabilitation. For long-term acute care hospitals, CMS will now decrease payment for less medically ill patients. To choose PAC wisely, hospitalists and hospital leaders must understand how these new policies will change where patients can be discharged and the services these patients receive at these PAC settings.
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