Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C.  The Medicare payment issues on its agenda were:

  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Physician and other health professional services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Ambulatory surgical center services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospital inpatient and outpatient services;
  • Mandated report: Expanding the post-acute care transfer policy to hospice
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Skilled nursing facility services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Home health care services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Inpatient rehabilitation facility services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Long-term care hospital services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Outpatient dialysis services
  • Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospice services
  • The Medicare Advantage program: Status report

A transcript of that MedPAC meeting is now available.  Find it here.