AHA report examines post-acute care trends, innovations

A new AHA TrendWatch report offers guidance to post-acute providers and their partners as they evaluate new models of care delivery and payment. “These providers face an increasingly complex regulatory and market environment as health care transforms from a system that rewards volume to one that encourages and rewards value,” the report notes. “This report highlights case examples from PAC innovators and their partners as they adapt to the early stages of delivery system reform; it also examines the current and potential future landscape for long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies. The Addendum, available online at www.aha.org/research, provides background on each of these care settings, including their clinical scopes of services, current payment methodologies and regulatory changes.”