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CMS to discuss PAC-PRD today

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, July 26, 2007

Today at 2:30 p.m. Eastern, CMS will host a two-hour Open Door Forum (ODF) on its upcoming Post Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration (PAC-PRD). The PAC-PRD will collect data from acute care hospitals and four types of postacute care settings, including long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, SNFs, and home health agencies.The agency plans to examine the data it gleans from PAC-PRD to "predict cost and resource use based on patient assessment information," according to a press release.

CMS' ultimate goals are to develop a uniform patient assessment instrument, determine a new Medicare payment structure across postacute care settings, and to reevaluate how patient assessments occur just before and then during a patient's postacute care. During previous forums, CMS officials affirmed that a postacute assessment tool, if developed, would take the place of the MDS.

To participate in the ODF, call 800/837-1935, and use conference identification 9438143. An encore recording of the ODF is available at 800/642-1687 (same identification number) for four business days after the call.

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