--- title: Care Management Weekly News Update 8-28-25 description: Weekly healthcare news roundup covering healthcare management, healthcare IT, post acute care, primary care and physician practice management. image: https://www.avicenna-medical.com/hubfs/Blog%20Post%20Images%20and%20Graphics/Blog%20Post%20-%20Featured%20Image%20(3).jpg --- [![Logo](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/hubfs/2016/images/amc_logo_top_nav_172x54.svg "Logo")](https://www.avicenna-medical.com) # Avicenna Medical Blog # Avicenna Medical Blog ## [Care Management Weekly News Update 8/28/25](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/blog/care-management-weekly-news-update-8-28-25) Posted by [DeAnn Dennis](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/blog/author/deann-dennis) on Thu, Aug 28, 2025 @ 11:45 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/hubfs/Blog%20Post%20Images%20and%20Graphics/Blog%20Post%20-%20Featured%20Image%20(3).jpg) ](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/blog/care-management-weekly-news-update-8-28-25) Medicare patients have increasingly checked themselves out of the hospital against the advice of medical staff since 2006, with a temporary spike in self-discharges coinciding with the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to a new claims review conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG). # [Post-Acute Care After Surgery: A New Hospital Quality Metric?](https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/population-health-management/post-acute-care/news/55312362/post-acute-care-after-surgery-a-new-hospital-quality-metric) With discharge to post-acute care often seen as an unanticipated and costly surgical outcome, researchers are proposing that discharge to post-acute care could be used as a benchmarking metric in care for older adults. Because discharge to post-acute care can add more than $5,000 to care costs and is associated with worse outcomes for older patients, a study published in the [Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) ](https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/abstract/9900/discharge_to_post_acute_care_as_a_benchmarking.1334.aspx)suggests it may be a valuable benchmark to help hospitals evaluate how they are serving older adult surgical patients.  # [HHS to form outside committee on reshaping Medicare, Medicaid](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/hhs-form-committee-offers-guidance-medicare-medicaid) The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will seek external experts for a new committee tasked with providing strategic guidance on the care provided by government insurance programs. The CMS is currently accepting nominations for committee members and is looking for experts in chronic disease management, financing in federal health programs and delivery system reform. 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