Medicaid bed-hold policies and hospitalization of long-stay nursing home residents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of Medicaid bed-hold policies on hospitalization of long-stay nursing home residents.

Data sources

A nationwide random sample of long-stay nursing home residents with data elements from Medicare claims and enrollment files, the Minimum Data Set, the Online Survey Certification and Reporting System, and Area Resource File. The sample consisted of 22,200,089 person-quarters from 754,592 individuals who became long-stay residents in 17,149 nursing homes over the period beginning January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2005.

Study design

Linear regression models using a pre/post design adjusted for resident, nursing home, market, and state characteristics. Nursing home and year-quarter fixed effects were included to control for time-invariant

SUBMITTER: Unruh MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3737418 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature