Identifying high-value care for Medicare beneficiaries: a cross-sectional study of acute care hospitals in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

High-value care is providing high quality care at low cost; we sought to define hospital value and identify the characteristics of hospitals which provide high-value care.

Design

Retrospective observational study.

Setting

Acute care hospitals in the USA.

Participants

All Medicare beneficiaries with claims included in Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Star Ratings or in publicly available Medicare spending per beneficiary data.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Our primary outcome was value defined as the difference between Star Ratings quality score and Medicare spending; the secondary outcome was classification as a 4 or 5 star hospital with lowest quintile Medicare spending ('high value') or 1 or 2 star hospital with highe

SUBMITTER: Herrin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8971780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature