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A Case-Mix System for Children and Youth With Developmental Disabilities

Health Services Insights, 2020
Limited funding across health and social service programs presents a challenge regarding how to best match resources to the needs of the population. There is increasing consensus that differences in individual characteristics and care needs should be ...
Shannon L Stewart, Angela Celebre, Michael J Head, Mary L James, Lynn Martin, Brant E Fries   +5 more
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Cost Impact of Medicare OASIS Outcome Measurement for Rural Home Health Agencies

Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012
Many home health agencies (HHA) are in small towns located in rural areas. Due to volume restraints, a rural home health agency desiring to excel financially must endeavor to understand OASIS (the Outcome and Assessment Information Set).
Melondie Reeves Carter
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The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and U.S. Hospital Operations

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004
The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 initiated several changes to Medicare payment policy in an effort to slow the growth of hospital Medicare payments and ensure the future of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.
Gloria J. Bazzoli, Richard C. Lindrooth, Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Jack Needleman   +3 more
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Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based prospective hospital payment system can be well adopted for acute care surgery: Taiwanese experience with acute cholecystitis [PDF]

, 2020
Yu-Tung Wu, Yu‐Ning Lin, Chi‐Tung Cheng, Chih‐Yuan Fu, Chien‐Hung Liao, Chi‐Hsun Hsieh   +5 more
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Exploratory analysis on payment mechanisms to Community Mental Health Centers in Chile using mixed grounded theory

Medwave
Introduction Research on psychiatric deinstitutionalization has neglected that reforms in this field are nested in a health system that has undergone financial reforms.
Olga Toro-Devia, Ruben Alvarado, Mercedes Jeria, Denise Razzouk, Luis Salvador-Carulla   +4 more
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Upcoding in medicare: where does it matter most?

Health Economics Review
Upcoding in Medicare has been a topic of interest to economists and policy makers for nearly 40 years. While upcoding is generally understood as “billing for services at higher level of complexity than the service actually pro- vided or documented,” it ...
Keith A. Joiner, Jianjing Lin, Juan Pantano   +2 more
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Use of new interactive patient-provider software improves patient satisfaction and outcomes—a retrospective single-center study

Arthroplasty Today, 2019
Background: While a number of studies have explored patient- and provider-related factors contributing to quality of care, few studies have explored the role of technology in improving quality and optimizing patient-provider communication.
Chukwuweike U. Gwam, MD, Kathleen B. Urquico, RN, Jennifer I. Etcheson, MD, Nicole E. George, DO, Carlos A. Higuera Rueda, MD, Ronald E. Delanois, MD   +5 more
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The Impact of a New Case-Based Payment System on Quality of Care: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis in China

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Xinyu Zhang,1,2 Mengcen Qian,1,3 Jiaqi Yan,1 Ruixin Wang,1 Dawei Lyu,1,4 Xiaohua Ying,1,3 Shenglan Tang2,5,6 1School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University ...
Zhang X, Qian M, Yan J, Wang R, Lyu D, Ying X, Tang S   +6 more
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The 2011 ESRD Prospective Payment System: An Uncontrolled Experiment [PDF]

, 2011
Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer­, Glenn M. Chertow   +1 more
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Associação entre fatores institucionais, perfil da assistência ao parto e as taxas de cesariana em Santa Catarina

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
RESUMO: Objetivo: Investigar como fatores institucionais, representados pelo perfil social da maternidade na assistência ao parto, se associam às taxas de cesariana.
Paulo Fontoura Freitas, Tainiely Muller Barbosa Fernandes   +1 more
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