Eleven states have outlined plans to address post-acute care coordination as part of their participation in the new CMS Rural Health Transformation Program. The application window for the program ran ...

More than 2,000 post-acute facilities will have the opportunity to access admission, discharge and transfer data integrated ...

Starting January 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) – a mandatory five-year initiative designed to improve ...

Despite the extreme inside-the-Beltway focus on healthcare reform, there’s been hardly a mention of tackling reform of our long-term care system. This is curious when you stop to consider that these ...

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In September, CMS selected 741 hospitals to participate in a new reimbursement framework, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. Under TEAM, participating hospitals are responsible for the ...

Despite widespread adoption of electronic health records at hospitals and (to a lesser extent) post-acute care facilities, care coordination and outcomes monitoring among both types of providers are ...

Back and nexk procedures could be wrapped into the mandatory TEAM bundled payment model if CMS expands it. (Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images) Medical conditions and surgical episodes requiring ...

Congress’ Medicare advisory committee has made it clear that much work still needs to be done to bring alignment to post-acute care regulatory and payment matters. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...