The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, April 16, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Post Acute Care Delivery and Options to Improve It." Subcommittee members will discuss the current state of post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries and ways to improve it, including H.R. 1458, the Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute Care (BACPAC) Act, authored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA), and House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA).
The BACPAC Act would reform the delivery of Post-Acute Care Services under the Medicare program by providing for a system of bundled payments that seek to improve both quality in the program and efficiencies in the delivery of services to seniors in need. The subcommittee will review recent improvements made in H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, and discuss further opportunities to strengthen this important component of the Medicare program.
Upon introduction of H.R. 1458, McKinley commented, “For the past three years, we have been working on this legislation to help reduce the stress for seniors dealing with Medicare after a hospital visit. This bipartisan reform addresses the complicated decisions Medicare patients face by providing private-sector coordinators to guide patients through the process. BACPAC will strengthen Medicare for decades to come, help seniors receive the most effective care, and save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars."
H.R. 1458 is online here.as they are posted.
