Patient cognitive impairment associated with higher home health care delivery costs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether home health agencies incur significantly higher care delivery costs for patients with cognitive impairment across three timeframes relevant to home health payment policy.

Data sources

Linked Medicare home health claims and patient assessments, National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), and home health agency cost reports for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries receiving home health between 2011 and 2016.

Study design

We modeled care delivery costs incurred by the home health agency as a function of patient cognitive impairment using multivariable, propensity score-adjusted, generalized linear models.

Data collection/extraction methods

We identified NHATS participants who experienced an index home health

SUBMITTER: Burgdorf JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9108060 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature