MedPAC calls for creating more uniform pay system for all post-acute settings.

The article reports on the call by the U.S. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) for a unified prospective payment system across home health, long-term care, rehabilitation and skilled-nursing settings. Topics discussed include proposed incentive program by the commission, reason there is a lot of room for improvement for each of the measures according to MedPAC, and finding of MedPAC on a high Medicare Advantage (MA) market share.