CMS announces sites for demonstration program
Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, December 27, 2007
CMS has announced the next phase in a demonstration program evaluating the care that Medicare beneficiaries receive after being discharged from a hospital and how CMS pays for that care, the Post Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration (PAC-PRD).
The PAC-PRD was mandated by Congress in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to collect and compare consistent information about the health of beneficiaries and the care or clinical services received across the various types of health care providers. Recommendations generated by the demonstration program will be included in a report to Congress that also is mandated as part of the same law.
CMS will attempt to recruit a sample that is representative of the range of post-acute service providers across the country. Providers in the primary and alternative markets are encouraged to participate in this demonstration. Volunteers are still being accepted.
Information about this demonstration can be found at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/MD/itemdetail.asp?itemID=CMS1201325.
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