In rehabilitation, a lack of sensitive and objective outcomes measures makes it difficult to predict how and where patients will achieve the best, fastest outcomes. As a result, the true value of various levels of post-acute care is unclear. It is imperative that patients receive the best, most appropriate and most efficient level of care, but determining a course of action is not cut and dry. Existing assessment tools in rehabilitation serve as the foundation for determining access to, quality of, and reimbursement for medical rehabilitation services. Yet these very tools represent a minimum data set of patient progress. Long overdue is a quantitative, objective, standardized assessment tool that will reliably measure and even predict patient progress across the full range of rehabilitation and recovery, at all levels. For this reason, we have invested years of development and millions of dollars to develop the Ability Quotient™ (AQ), a novel outcomes assessment system.