MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2018
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Description
Evaluates Medicare payment issues and offers recommendations to the U.S. Congress. Includes a chapter on ensuring appropriate access to and use of hospital emergency department (ED) services that provides extensive information on rural access to ED services and identifies examples of rural off-campus emergency departments. Other sections of the report addressing rural concerns focus on post-acute care, quality and value payment programs, and medical device payment policies. Also includes a report on the effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
Date
06/2018
Organization
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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· Accountable Care Organizations
· Critical Access Hospitals
· Emergency department and urgent care services
· Healthcare quality
· Hospitals
· Medicare
· Policy
· Post-acute care
· Reimbursement and payment models
· Service delivery models