The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a special open-door forum on July 26 on plans for implementing data collection for the post-acute care payment reform demonstration (PAC-PRD). The demonstration will collect data in acute care hospitals and four types of PAC providers: long term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and home health agencies (HHAs).
The resulting data will be analyzed to predict cost and resource use based on patient assessment information to develop PAC payment reform options. The results of the demonstration may influence how Medicare pays for care across PAC settings and how patient assessments occur at hospital discharge and through subsequent PAC settings.
The forum will focus on issues of how data will be collected and how facilities may become involved in this project. To participate by phone, dial 800-837-1935 by 2:00 p.m. EDT on July 26 and reference conference ID 9438143. The forum will be held 2:30-4:30 p.m. EDT.
An audio recording of this forum will be posted to the special open-door forum web site and will be accessible for downloading beginning July 31, 2007. Read the announcement.
