Long-term Care
The AHA is deeply concerned with CMS’ woefully inadequate inpatient and long-term care hospital payment updates. The agency continues to finalize rate increases that are not commensurate with the near decades-high inflation and increased costs for labor, equipment, drugs and supplies that hospitals…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 10 issued the proposed rule for the inpatient and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment systems (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
The AHA is deeply concerned with CMS’ woefully inadequate proposed inpatient hospital payment update of 2.8% given the near decades-high inflation and increased costs for labor, equipment, drugs and supplies.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Aug. 1 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 final rule for the inpatient and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 final rule for the inpatient and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment systems (PPS).
AHA's submitted the following comments on the fiscal year (FY) 2023 LTCH prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule to CMS.
Winona Health
The unified post-acute care (PAC) payment system required by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care
Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 is not on track to protect access to medically necessary PAC services.
With the remarkable advances in health care, treatments for serious illnesses like cancer and diabetes are saving millions of lives each year and helping people live longer.
Long-term care hospitals, or LTCHs, and the other three post-acute care settings have been central to our recovery from COVID-19. The pandemic has particularly highlighted the distinct clinical competencies of LTCHs.