The Long-Term Care (LTC) Commission has
issued its full report to Congress this week.
The report provides a detailed overview of long-term care servicing and
financing issues facing Americans. With little time and in today's
politically charged environment, the 114-page document provides an in-depth assessment of challenges
facing the current U.S. long-term care system and offers a broad array of
potential solutions.
The recommendations in the report
were based on public comments and hearings, and the 15 members' expertise
in the field. They include:
- Elimination of Medicare's three-night hospital inpatient requirement to qualify for post-acute coverage;
- More public resources to speed development and implementation of LTC-specific health information technology;
- Expansion of “No Wrong Door” programs, which are meant to ensure that individuals end up in the most appropriate care setting no matter where they enter the LTC system;
- Creation
of a national advisory committee to continue this work. The entire commission acknowledged that it
faced enormous time constraints, and its report is not comprehensive enough to
serve as a definitive blueprint for reform, so a national advisory committee
should be created.
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