Discussion Reply- Response 1-2 paragraphs with 1-2 references

Classmate: Shurut Singh

The four types of Post-Acute Care (PACs) that are talked about in this chapter include: Long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies. According to Casto, PACs allows patients to receive healthcare services for their rehabilitation in a less intensive setting than acute-care inpatient hospitals (Casto, 2018). For this discussion, I will talk about how the home health agencies are providing a high quality of care while also being affordable to the patients.

Home health agencies are essentially agencies that provide physicians and care to anyone at their homes instead of a designated clinic location. The services that are offered include nursing treatment, physical, behavioral, and speech-language therapy, and emergency social services (Casto, 2018). The affordability is enhanced as HHA are covered and provided by Medicare and also Medicaid, which increases the number of patients that have access to this PAC. HHA allows patients to get high quality care at the comfort of their own house, reducing the cost of travel on the patients side and also removes the cost of operating a dedicated clinic to treat patients. HHA provides affordability for both the patients and also the providers. HHA is a great PAC choice and as a healthcare administrator, I would urge the adoption and use of HHA as it allows for the great high quality care that a patient deserves at a lower cost to both the patients and also the hospital.

References:

Casto, A. B. (2018). Principles of Healthcare Reimbursement. (6th ed.). American Health Information Management Association AHIMA.