Explaining State Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement

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Názov: Explaining State Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement
Autori: Swan, James H., Harrington, Charlene, Pickard, Ruth B.
Prispievatelia: Wichita State University. Department of Public Health Sciences
Zdroj: Journal of Health & Social Policy. 12:53-73
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Informa UK Limited, 2001.
Rok vydania: 2001
Predmety: Medicaid/statistics & numerical data, State Health Plans, Research Support, Health Services Accessibility, Medicaid/economics, Reimbursement Mechanisms, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Research Support as Topic, State Health Plans/statistics & numerical data, Humans, Aged, Non-P.H.S, Medicaid, Data Collection, Nursing Homes/economics, United States, Nursing Homes, 3. Good health, State Health Plans/economics, Health Services Accessibility/economics, Rate Setting and Review, Regression Analysis, U.S. Gov't, Rate Setting and Review/trends, Reimbursement Mechanisms/trends, Rate Setting and Review/methods, 0305 other medical science
Popis: Medicaid nursing home reimbursement methods and per diem rates affect costs, quality, equity, and access. State rate-setting is a laboratory of policymaking, which can inform state and federal Medicaid reform initiatives. This paper explains state Medicaid nursing facility rates in 1979-1994. Findings suggest that prospective facility-specific methods constrained rates in some but not all periods, particularly when older cost-reports were employed in rate-setting. Analysis failed to show that prospective class rate-setting methods constrained rate increases. Findings suggest that the efficacy of reimbursement methodology to control rates depends upon wider health care policy trends and that future facility-level analyses should consider policy contexts as between states.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 0897-7186
DOI: 10.1300/j045v12n04_04
Prístupová URL adresa: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11140119
https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/4778
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11140119
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....98d21824c5d5516131b502a3bb91938a
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Medicaid nursing home reimbursement methods and per diem rates affect costs, quality, equity, and access. State rate-setting is a laboratory of policymaking, which can inform state and federal Medicaid reform initiatives. This paper explains state Medicaid nursing facility rates in 1979-1994. Findings suggest that prospective facility-specific methods constrained rates in some but not all periods, particularly when older cost-reports were employed in rate-setting. Analysis failed to show that prospective class rate-setting methods constrained rate increases. Findings suggest that the efficacy of reimbursement methodology to control rates depends upon wider health care policy trends and that future facility-level analyses should consider policy contexts as between states.
ISSN:08977186
DOI:10.1300/j045v12n04_04