Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
CMS Tees Up IMPACTAct Cross-Setting Measure
Published on Fri Jul 17, 2015
Get ready for yet another quality measure. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and its contractors are developing a discharge to community measure for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), Long-Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs), and HHAs, CMS says. The measure aims to “meet the mandate of the Improving Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (known as the IMPACT Act).”
CMS’s contractors are convening groups of stakeholders and experts to provide input during measure development and maintenance.
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