MHA Provides Analysis Of Inpatient Post-acute Care Transfer Policy

The Missouri Hospital Association offers an analysis that estimates the effect on Medicare inpatient fee-for-service payments from the post-acute care transfer adjustment for federal fiscal years 2021 through 2026. Hospitals that transfer a Medicare beneficiary to a post-acute care provider can incur a payment reduction if the inpatient length of stay is less than the geometric mean.

This analysis includes the estimated payment reduction by discharge setting, including skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities, cancer and children’s hospitals, hospice and home health. Policy and analytic studies, prepared for distribution by the Hospital Industry Data Institute, are available for download to authorized users of HIDI Advantage^®.