Change of Ownership and Quality of Home Health Agency Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The home health agency (HHA) market has seen increasingly more change in ownership transactions. Little is known about the organizational characteristics and quality of care of HHAs after ownership has changed.

Objective

To examine whether an HHA change in ownership was associated with different quality-of-care outcomes, patient volume, and staffing levels.

Design, setting, and participants

Using current HHA change of ownership files linked to publicly available Medicare HHA data, this staggered difference-in-differences analysis evaluated ownership change transactions of Medicare-certified HHAs from quarter 1 of 2016 to quarter 4 of 2019. Pretransaction and posttransaction HHA characteristics and quality-of-care outcomes were compared between HHAs that cha

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11530943 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature