Association of Dual Eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid With Heart Failure Quality and Outcomes Among Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses a new peer group-based payment system to compare hospital performance as part of its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which classifies hospitals into quintiles based on their share of dual-eligible beneficiaries for Medicare and Medicaid. However, little is known about the association of a hospital's share of dual-eligible beneficiaries with the quality of care and outcomes for patients with heart failure (HF).

Objective

To evaluate the association between a hospital's proportion of patients with dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid and HF quality of care and outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study evaluated 436 196 patients hospitalized for HF using the Get

SUBMITTER: Bahiru E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8027938 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature