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Affordable Care Act Puts Post-Acute Care Facilities under Increasing Scrutiny
Improved healthcare for patients and substantial Medicare savings are the motivations behind the Affordable Care Act’s call for increasing scrutiny of post-acute care facilities; long-term care facility owners and operators need to take notice. Revised nursing home rating systems President Obama signed the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (IMPACT) Oct. 6 changing the wayRead the Rest…
What is General Medicine?
Many physicians who provide medical services to post-acute care facilities do so in addition to their work in their own practices and making hospital rounds. It’s because of this that it becomes understandable that their practices often take priority. It’s also understandable if returning calls to the facility might be put off until the endRead the Rest…
Study Finds Nursing Home Rates at All-Time High
It’s no secret that the cost of receiving post-acute care is high, but recent survey results show they are at an all-time high after rising by as much as 4% over the last five years. Costs vary significantly by state and service, with the highest increases occurring for care provided in a post-hospitalist facility. Read the Rest…
New Bill Will Save Medicare $100 Billion and Improve Post-Acute Care
A recently drafted Bill known as the Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute Care Act of 2014 (BACPAC) is an attempt to improve post hospitalist care for patients and save Medicare as much as $100 billion over 10 years. The fundamental idea is that Medicare would pay a lump sum for 90 days of post-acute care. Post-acuteRead the Rest…
EHR Incentives Leave Post-Acute Care Facilities in the Dark Age
Nearly 50% of all post-acute care facilities expect to be acquired by more technologically advanced companies by the year 2015. While this number may just be part of the usual onslaught of fear that circulates in our unstable economy, those fears could be legitimate for single and stand-alone post-acute care facilities, who have been threatenedRead the Rest…
Is Post-Acute Care Dropping the Ball on Hospital Readmissions?
Research on hospital readmission rates—particularly readmissions involving Medicare patients—is a relatively new demand, having emerged with the Affordable Care Act in 2010 when the federal government began implementing fines and penalties to hospitals with high preventable readmission rates, the goal being an $8 billion reduction of unnecessary government healthcare spending. With the government placing fullRead the Rest…