Medicare Patients And Postacute Care
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Author | : Carl Richard Neu |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Medical |
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As part of an effort to understand better the "natural history" of episodes of care among Medicare beneficiaries, this report documents patterns of postacute care use by Medicare patients and explores some factors that may explain these patterns. The research suggests that there are factors unrelated to a patient's medical condition that determine the setting in which postacute care is given. These factors include economic and social circumstances, and characteristics of the discharging hospital. Specifically, whites are significantly more likely to use skilled nursing facility (SNF) care than nonwhites, whereas nonwhites are significantly more likely to use home health care than whites. A similar pattern is repeated at the hospital level: Patients discharged from hospitals with a "disproportionate share" of Medicaid patients are less likely to receive SNF care but more likely to use home health care than are patients discharged from other hospitals. Because SNF and home health care appear to be substitutes for each other, policy measures that affect care in one of these settings will probably affect care in the other.
Author | : William Scanlon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Home care services |
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Author | : Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Hospitals |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Health care reform |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : David C. Goodman (MD) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Continuum of care |
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This is the first national report to look at how effectively communities and hospitals coordinate care for some of their sickest patients--those leaving the hospital after a stay to treat an acute or chronic illness. Without high-quality care coordination, patients can bounce from home to the emergency room and back into the hospital, sometimes repeatedly. Hospital readmission rates are increasingly seen as markers of local health care systems' ability to coordinate care for patients across the full continuum of care settings: hospitals, rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, clinician offices, hospice and home. Better care coordination promises to reduce readmission rates and improve patients' lives while reducing costs.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309282853 |
Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations is designed to provide the committee's preliminary observations for the 113th Congress as it considers further Medicare reform. This report contains only key preliminary observations related primarily to the committee's commissioned analyses of Medicare Parts A (Hospital Insurance program), B (Supplementary Medical Insurance program) and D (outpatient prescription drug benefit), complemented by other empirical investigations. It does not contain any observations related to the committee's commissioned analyses of the commercial insurer population, Medicare Advantage, or Medicaid, which will be presented in the committee's final report after completion of quality-control activities. This interim report excludes conclusions or recommendations related to the committee's consideration of the geographic value index or other payment reforms designed to promote highvalue care. Additional analyses are forthcoming, which will influence the committee's deliberations. These analyses include an exploration of how Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) and commercial spending, utilization, and quality vary compared with, and possibly are influenced by, Medicare Parts A and B spending, utilization, and quality. The committee also is assessing potential biases that may be inherent to Medicare and commercial claims-based measures of health status. Based on this new evidence and continued review of the literature, the committee will confirm the accuracy of the observations presented in this interim report and develop final conclusions and recommendations, which will be published in the committee's final report.