Results 21 to 30 of about 264,328 (264)
Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems [PDF]
, 2012 Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal reimbursement. We contrast the effects of two reforms for home health agencies.
Escarce, Jose J +4 more
core +1 more source
Variation in Payment Rates under Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System [PDF]
Health Services Research, 2016 ObjectiveTo measure variation in payment rates under Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and identify the main payment adjustments that drive variation.Data Sources/Study SettingMedicare cost reports for all Medicare‐certified hospitals, 1987–2013, and Dartmouth Atlas geographic files.Study DesignWe measure the Medicare payment rate ...
Krinsky, Sam +3 more
openaire +3 more sources
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2015 Background: While integrated health care system has been proved an effective way to help improving patient health and system efficiency, the exact behaviour model and motivation approach are not so clear in poor rural areas where health human resources ...
Wenxi Tang +4 more
doaj +3 more sources
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004 In July 1998, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the payment method for Medicare (Part A) skilled nursing facility (SNF) care from a cost-based system to a prospective payment system (PPS). Unlike the previous cost-based payment
Walter P. Wodchis +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Impact of the End Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System on the Use of Peritoneal Dialysis
Kidney International Reports, 2017 The End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS), implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in January 2011, encouraged use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) through various financial incentives. Our goal was to determine
Qian Zhang +3 more
doaj +1 more source
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Case-mix based prospective payment of homecare is being implemented in several countries to work towards more efficient and client-centred homecare.
Anne O. E. van den Bulck +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2003 Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) were eliminated by the SNF prospective payment system initiated in 1998.
Korbin Liu, Kirsten J. Black
doaj +1 more source
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021 Background To evaluate the performance of the patient clinical complexity level (PCCL) mechanism, which is the patient-level complexity adjustment factor within the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) patient classification system, in explaining the ...
Sujeong Kim +4 more
doaj +1 more source
The Experience of the Home Health Prospective Payment System in the United States and Its Enlightenment for China [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixueBased on literature analysis, the paper systematically summarizes the development history, grouping and payment mode of the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) in the United States.
HU Yuhong, GUO Lijun, PENG Xiangdong, SUN Wei, BAO Yong
doaj +1 more source
Development of a novel hospital payment system – Big data diagnosis & intervention Packet
Health Policy Open, 2022 The diagnosis related group (DRG) was the most commonly used prospective hospital payment platform in developed countries. One of the major limitations of the DRG system is that the DRG grouping is not sufficiently homogeneous in benchmarking underlying ...
Hua Xie +5 more
doaj +1 more source