In this paper we examine empirically the effect of integration on Medicare payment and rehospitalization. We use 2005 …-2013 data on Medicare beneficiaries receiving PAC in the U.S. to examine integration between hospitals and the two most common … for each hospital-PAC pair in a market to test how changes in integration impact patient outcomes. Second, we use an …

also explains state-level differences in quality of hospital care. The quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital care was … the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … paper uses quality of care data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine whether disability …

Upcoding in Medicare has been a topic of interest to economists and policy makers for nearly 40 years. While upcoding … of Medicare is to inform policy makers on the magnitude of the process and to suggest approaches to mitigate the level of … upcoding. Financial estimates for upcoding in traditional Medicare (Medicare Parts A and B), are highly variable, in part …

.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and … providers respond. We investigate hospice programs' responses to a cap in the Medicare hospice benefit on their average annual … subsequent live discharges. On the extensive margin, we find that cap liabilities are associated with terminations of Medicare …

hospital's patients as compared to Jinnah hospital.Conclusion: This study indicates that OOP direct medical cost burden was … in reducing out of pocket (OOP) expenses on direct medical costs borne by breast carcinoma patients' household from … said patients during the services taken from the foresaid tertiary care centers.Methods: A purposive sample of 164 primary …

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

Objective. To assess relationships between changes in Medicare Advantage (MA) payment rates and Medicare beneficiary …. Data. State Inpatient Database discharge abstracts from Arizona, Florida, and New York merged with administrative Medicare … Medicare Advantage payment rates and rates of ambulatory care sensitive and elective hospitalizations amongst Medicare …

lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … the patient’s insurance status. Our conclusion is that, the reform did not repair the existing inequalities. The gap has …