Spending On Postacute Care After Hospitalization In Commercial Insurance And Medicare Around Age Sixty-Five.

ABSTRACT: Postacute care costs are the primary determinant of episode spending around hospitalization. Yet there is little evidence that greater spending on postacute care improves readmission rates or functional recovery. Recent Medicare payment reform evaluations have suggested that postacute care spending is responsive to episode-based incentives. However, it remains unknown whether Medicare payment policies are responsible for excess postacute care spending, compared with that of commercial payers. In a population-based, statewide collaborative of Michigan hospitals, we used regression discontinuity design among propensity-weighted, age-adjusted cohorts to compare postacute care spending between patients with commercial insurance and those with Medicare around age sixty-five. Spending was 68-230

SUBMITTER: Regenbogen SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7795720 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature