Effect of Age-Friendly Care on Days at Home Post-Hospital Discharge for Traditional Medicare Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: The Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) model encourages value-based care by bundling 90-day healthcare-related costs into a single payment for eligible service codes and procedures for traditional Medicare Part A and B beneficiaries. Our institution, an Age-Friendly Health Systems Level 2 certified academic health center, participated in the BPCI-A model from 2018 to 2022. This study aimed to determine differences in days spent at home in the 30- and 90-day post-hospitalization period for older patients in the BPCI-A program based on Age-Friendly care status. Descriptive analyses assessed differences among patients who received Age-Friendly care (n = 275) and those who did not (n = 348). Zero-one-inflated beta regression models with propensity score matching compared th

SUBMITTER: Drago K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11898030 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature