The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the start of participant recruitment for the post-acute care payment reform demonstration (PAC-PRD). Participating providers include acute care hospitals and four post-acute care settings--long term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies.
A key goal of this project is to generate recommendations for improving CMS payment models based on data collected in the demonstration. The goals of payment reform include aligning incentives among the four PAC settings with a particular focus on patient populations seen in more than one PAC setting. Other areas to be explored include the examination of discharge patterns and the comparison of outcomes between settings.
