Length of Stay in Hospitals Reporting Participation in Bundled Payment Programs: 2016 to 2022.

ABSTRACT: Bundled payment programs aim to align the incentives of acute and post-acute providers during an episode of care. Prior studies of the impact of bundled payments on hospital length of stay (LOS) were mixed, and none evaluated hospital exposure to bundled payments across all payers (public and commercial). In this study, we used the American Hospital Association survey data for 2016 to 2022 to compare the LOS of hospitals that participated in bundled payments to those that did not participate. We used regression analysis with interaction terms to compare the changes in LOS of hospitals that participated in bundled payments with concurrent changes in LOS of hospitals that did not participate in bundled payments. The models included hospital and year fixed effects. We also conducted subgroup

SUBMITTER: Tian Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12553900 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature