Do Skilled Nursing Facilities Selected to Participate in Preferred Provider Networks Have Higher Quality and Lower Costs?

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To determine whether skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) chosen by health systems to participate in preferred provider networks exhibited differences in quality, costs, and patient outcomes relative to other SNFs after accounting for differences in case mix. DATA SOURCES:Medicare provider and claims data, 2012 and 2013. STUDY DESIGN:We compared SNFs included in preferred networks relative to other SNFs in the same market, prior to the establishment of preferred provider networks. DATA EXTRACTION METHODS:We linked the SNFs in our sample to facility characteristics and quality data. We identified SNF admissions and hospitalizations in claims data and limited the analysis to patients discharged from the hospitals in our sample. We obtained patient characteristics from Medicare summary

SUBMITTER: Huckfeldt PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6232398 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature