Summary of Acute Hospital and Post-Acute Care Bundling
Healthcare payment reform will occur and Medicare payment methodologies indeed will change in the near future. A seven-year savings of $18 billion from bundling payments to hospitals, post-acute providers, and physicians is too significant to ignore.
Although none of the initiatives provides details on specific procedures for bundling acute and post-acute care payments, and there are variations in implementation timelines, all include certain key elements:
- Payment for acute hospitalizations, physician services, re-hospitalizations within 30 days, and post-acute care within 30 days should be bundled into a single payment.
- Bundling will save Medicare about $18 billion over a 10-year period.
- Payment for acute hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations within 30 days would occur as Phase 1; and, bundling for post-acute care would occur in Phase 2.
Payment bundling is one of a number of Medicare payment reforms to stem federal spending increases, which are predicted to come more from growth in per capita spending rather than aging of the population.
Contact Kathleen Griffin, Ph.D., National Director of Post Acute and Senior Services at 480-922-9366 or kathleeng@hdgi1.com to learn more about Medicare Payment Bundling.
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