Skilled nursing facility (SNF) spending has been one of the fastest growing categories of Medicare spending over the past few decades, and reductions in SNF payments are often recommended as part of Medicare cost containment efforts. Using a quasi‐experiment resulting from a policy‐driven and facility‐specific Medicare payment change, we provide new evidence on how Medicare payment changes affect the amount of SNF care provided to Medicare patients. Specifically, we examine a one‐time, plausibly exogenous change in the hospital wage index, an area‐level adjustment to SNF payments that affected the majority of SNFs nationwide. Using a panel dataset of SNFs, we model the effects of these payment changes on more than 12,000 SNFs across the Uni...
As health care expenditures in the U.S. have skyrocketed in the last few decades, the federal govern...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a ...
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)...
Skilled nursing facility (SNF) spending has been one of the fastest growing categories of Medicare s...
Post-acute care provided by skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is reimbursed by Medicare under a pros...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for skilled nur...
In 1998, Medicare began phasing in a new prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facili...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The nation's 1...
To investigate the effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for skilled nursing facili...
Abstract Background The initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may h...
BackgroundThe initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may have no cos...
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. November 2019. Major: Health Services Research, Policy a...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report ad...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1998, the H...
As health care expenditures in the U.S. have skyrocketed in the last few decades, the federal govern...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a ...
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)...
Skilled nursing facility (SNF) spending has been one of the fastest growing categories of Medicare s...
Post-acute care provided by skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is reimbursed by Medicare under a pros...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for skilled nur...
In 1998, Medicare began phasing in a new prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facili...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The nation's 1...
To investigate the effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for skilled nursing facili...
Abstract Background The initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may h...
BackgroundThe initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may have no cos...
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. November 2019. Major: Health Services Research, Policy a...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report ad...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1998, the H...
As health care expenditures in the U.S. have skyrocketed in the last few decades, the federal govern...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a ...
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)...