Post-Acute Care Fact Sheets and Infographics

The unified post-acute care (PAC) payment system required by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 is not on track to protect access to medically necessary PAC services.

The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 was enacted, in part, to develop a unified payment model for the post-acute care (PAC) field, recognizing that payment needed to be modernized for the four PAC settings – home health (HH) agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), and long-term care hospitals (LTCH). However, the legislation could not account for the transformative changes implemented to the existing PAC payment systems following its passage.

Congress and CMS have set in motion an ambitious plan to significantly reform post-acute care, which includes long-term care hospitals (LTCH), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), skilled nursing facilities SNF) and home health (HH) agencies.

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) serve a unique and valuable role within the Medicare program by treating patients who require hospital-level care in conjunction with intensive rehabilitation.

The Enough Is Enough infographic highlights the timeline for post-acute care reforms under the IMPACT Act of 2014, and urges policymakers to prevent additional changes that would jeopardize ca

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) have faced significant scrutiny from Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in recent years, which has led to multiple interv

In recent years, post-acute providers have faced scrutiny from Congress and other policy-makers that has resulted in substantial payment cuts.