Office of Management and Budget Senior Care

The Office of Management and Budget has published initiatives to produce a fundamentally new health care world.   Health Care is at the beginning of a new way as digital brokers emerge to construct networks that communicate how this will look. 

Health systems now experience huge populations of eligible consumers needing to utilize their service.  More users with limited public funds means senior care providers must change their delivery to strengthen operational capability.

Acute care delivered in the hospital inpatient setting will no longer receive full reimbursement for readmissions.  Post acute care delivered in a nursing home or paid as an in home service will include the following cost containment strategies.

-must meet skilled care level to receive service

-increase consumer out of pocket

-bundled post acute care reimbursement

Digital efficiencies will include separation of skilled care needs verses non-skilled care needs closer to the point of service delivery.  Public money will no longer pay community providers at the higher level of skilled care for a service that non-medical organizations deliver at a lower cost.

Increased consumer out of pocket will encourage families to purchase non skilled delivery to supplement the elder's obvious needs.  Private pay will become a cost effective option.  Expect the State Department of Health and Social Services to begin initiatives that facilitate a greater density of community personal/ supportive care providers. 

Bundled post acute care reimbursement will encourage medical health systems to focus on an improved discharge process.  This will involve internal staff in the important tasks of managing length of stay.  Digital connectivity will forge stronger mechanisms of referral as the density of community providers increases.

This is digitalizing aspects of elder care to deliver the service at the senior's home for less cost. 
Public funded pay sources have already began to adapt policy that shapes delivery in a more efficient way.  This will be perceived as a large change to the participating population. 

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