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In the state of New York alone, patients being discharged from hospitals into a post-acute care (PAC) settings can choose from more than 620 nursing homes, 120 certified home health agencies and 1,400 licensed home care services agencies. A similar breadth of PAC options exist in many other U.S. markets as well.
The emergence of accountable care organizations (ACOs), value-based purchasing and other innovative payment models has gradually broken down silos between the acute and post-acute worlds, but their success is still hindered by a dearth of actionable data and publicly available information to help streamline care transitions for patients.
That’s especially true when it comes to hospital discharges to home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), a new report from the United Hospital Fund suggests.