Thirty-Day Hospital Readmission for Medicaid Enrollees with Schizophrenia: The Role of Local Health Care Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Examining health care system characteristics possibly associated with 30-day readmission may reveal opportunities to improve healthcare quality as well as reduce costs.

Aims of the study

Examine the relationship between 30-day mental health readmission for persons with schizophrenia and county-level community treatment characteristics.

Methods

Observational study of 18 state Medicaid programs (N=274 counties, representing 103,967 enrollees with schizophrenia 28,083 of whom received more than 1 mental health hospitalization) using Medicaid administrative and United States Area Health Resource File data from 2005. Medicaid is a federal-state program and major health insurance provider for low income and disabled individuals, and the predominant provider of in

SUBMITTER: Busch AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4764135 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature