Association between home health agency ownership status and discharge to community among Medicare beneficiaries.
Home Health Care Serv Q
; 40(4): 340-354, 2021.
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ABSTRACT
To investigate the association of ownership status, discharge rate and length of stay (LOS) of home health care (HH) services under the prospective payment system (PPS). We used 2016-2018 Outcome Assessment and Information Set (OASIS) data sets for Medicare beneficiaries. Two outcome variables were investigated rate of discharge from an HH agency and LOS. Our main independent variable was ownership status for-profit (FP) versus not-for-profit (NFP). FP agencies were 4.2% (p <.01) less likely to discharge patients to the community but more likely (7.3%; p <.001) to have longer LOS (>99 days) compared to NFPs. Findings that FP agencies were less likely to discharge patients to the community and more likely to have a longer length of stay than NFP agencies have implications for quality of care initiatives by the Medicare Post-Acute Transformation Act 2014.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Agencias de Atención a Domicilio
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Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Aged
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Home Health Care Serv Q
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos