Post-Acute Care Trends: Care Transition Management, PAC Partnerships Foster 'Warm Handoffs'
As evidenced by CMS' ongoing Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative and closer scrutiny of skilled nursing facility (SNF) readmission rates starting in 2018, healthcare is honing new post-acute care (PAC) delivery and reimbursement models that result in higher quality and more coordinated, cost-effective care across the continuum. Acutely aware of this imperative, 95 percent of respondents to a July 2015 survey on Post-Acute Care Trends have amped up efforts to improve quality and reduce costs of post-acute care. In new market metrics from the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN), care transition management, development of PAC partnerships and integration of all PAC services are the top tactics deployed to achieve this goal Click here to download the report today. Customized reports, including benchmark results by industry sector, are available upon request. This white paper is an excerpt from 2015 Healthcare Benchmarks: Post-Acute Care Trends, which captures industry efforts to enhance care coordination for individuals receiving post-acute services following a hospitalization—initiatives like the creation of a preferred PAC network or collaborative. Click here for more information. For the purposes of these metrics, PAC is defined as the following: Care received following a stay in an acute care hospital from either a skilled nursing facility (SNF), home health agency (HHA), inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF), or long-term care hospital (LTCH). This 40-page report, based on healthcare industry responses to HIN's landmark survey on trends in post-acute care, compiles a wealth of metrics presented in a series of data tables and dozens of charts. Breaking down findings by high-responding industry sectors, the 2015 market metrics in this report capture the following data points:
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