Improving the Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act: What Does the Future Hold Post-Pandemic?

2014. Congress recognized that payments for post-acute care (PAC) settings needed to be modernized. To unify the payment model for PAC providers, they enacted the IMPACT Act. The law required CMS to develop and implement standardized patient assessment and quality measures for all PAC settings, and to use collected data to model a new PAC...