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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Post-acute care: Increasing the equity of Medicare’s payments within each setting

Post-acute care: Increasing the equity of Medicare’s payments within each setting

March 15, 2018

The Congress should direct the Secretary to begin to base Medicare payments to post-acute care (PAC) providers on a blend of each sector’s setting-specific relative weights and the unified PAC prospective payment system’s relative weights in fiscal year 2019.

Appeared in: March 2018 - Chapter 7

Topics: Delivery system reforms and Post-acute care.