Evaluation of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as a Permanent Program and of a For-Profit Demonstration

Evaluation work on permanent PACE is complete and the Report to Congress was authorized and published in January, 2009 by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Report to Congress is available at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PACE/Downloads/Report%20to%20Congress.pdf. Supporting reports include: "The Effect of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) on Quality" (available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/reports/downloads/Beauchamp_2008.pdf) and "The Effects of PACE on Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures" (available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/reports/downloads/Foster_PACE_2009.pdf). The BBA mandated report on the for-profit PACE demonstration is not feasible as of December 31, 2009 because the two for-profit demonstration sites have not existed long enough to be evaluated. A supplemental report on a community-based practice model named, "How Integrated Care Programs Use Community-Based, Primary Care Physicians" has been completed and is available on the Web site at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/reports/downloads/cheh.pdf.