Facility Medicaid Payer Burden and Nonelective Admission for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) is a major public health issue that requires considerable human and physical resources to provide optimal patient care. It is essential to characterize the disease severity and resource needs of patients with CLTI presenting to facilities of varying resource capacities.

Objective

To investigate the association between facility-level Medicaid payer proportions and the incidence of nonelective admissions among patients admitted for CLTI.

Design, setting, and participants

In this retrospective multicenter cohort study, 876 026 CLTI-related inpatient admissions at 8769 US facilities from January 1, 1998, through October 31, 2020, were identified in the National Inpatient Sample. Facilities were ranked into quintiles acco

SUBMITTER: Medvedovsky S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11983227 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature