Commission Recommendations
MedPAC makes recommendations to the Congress and to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on issues affecting the administration of the Medicare program. With its recommendations, the Commission strives to improve the delivery of care, while ensuring financial stability and maximizing value for the program. After extensive analysis and evaluation, our recommendations are discussed and voted on by Commissioners in our public meetings. Recommendations are typically published in two main reports, released in March and June of each year.
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Long-term care hospital servicesThe Secretary should eliminate the update to the payment rates for long-term care hospitals for fiscal year 2015. |
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Post-acute care providers: Steps toward broad payment reformsThe Congress should direct the Secretary to implement common patient assessment items for use in home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care hospitals by 2016. |
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Hospice servicesThe Congress should eliminate the update to the hospice payment rates for fiscal year 2014. |
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Inpatient rehabilitation facility servicesThe Congress should eliminate the update to the Medicare payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities in fiscal year 2014. |
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Long-term care hospital servicesThe Secretary should eliminate the update to the payment rates for long-term care hospitals for fiscal year 2014. |
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Home health care servicesThe Commission reiterates its March 2011 recommendations on improving the home health payment system. |
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Hospice servicesThe Congress should update the payment rates for hospice for fiscal year 2013 by 0.5 percent |
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Inpatient rehabilitation facility servicesThe Congress should eliminate the update to the Medicare payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities in fiscal year 2013. |
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Long-term care hospital servicesThe Secretary should eliminate the update to the payment rates for long-term care hospitals for fiscal year 2013. |
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Skilled nursing facility services (1)The Congress should eliminate the market basket update and direct the Secretary to revise the prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities for 2013. Rebasing payments should begin in 2014, with an initial reduction of 4 percent and subsequent reductions over an appropriate transition until Medicare’s payments are better aligned with providers’ costs. |
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