Facility and Geographic Variation in Rates of Successful Community Discharge After Inpatient Rehabilitation Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 mandated a quality measure of successful community discharge for postacute care services. Examining variation in performance nationally can help identify opportunities for improving patient-centered quality of care.

Objective

To examine US facility-level and geographic variation in rates of successful community discharges after inpatient rehabilitation.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study of Medicare claims data from December 31, 2013, through October 1, 2015, included 1154 inpatient rehabilitation facilities submitting claims to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and a total of 487 862 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries discharged from inp

SUBMITTER: Middleton A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324386 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature