T R Willemain
T R Willemain
The companion paper on nursing home levels of care (Bishop, Plough and Willemain, 1980) recommended a "split-rate" approach to nursing home reimbursement that would distinguish between fixed and variable costs. This paper examines three alt...
C E Bishop,A L Plough,T R Willemain
C E Bishop
Providers and recipients of nursing home care under Medicaid are currently classified into two levels of care to facilitate appropriate placement, care, and reimbursement. The inherent imprecision of the two level system leads to problems o...
Cost sharing, supplementary insurance, and health services utilization among the Medicare elderly [0.03%]
关于医疗照顾老人层面对健康服务利用的费用分摊与补充保险问题的研究
C R Link,S H Long,R F Settle
C R Link
This paper investigates the extent to which private supplementary insurance and Medicaid, which vitiate the effect of Medicare cost-sharing, encourage elderly beneficiaries to seek additional medical care. A multivariate model of health ser...
Medicare episodes of illnesses: a study of hospital, skilled nursing facility, and home health agency care [0.03%]
医疗保险病程研究：住院、专业康复机构和家庭医疗服务调查研究报告
K M Young,C R Fisher
K M Young
This paper analyzes charges incurred under the Medicare program for inpatient hospital, skilled nursing facility (SNF), and home health agency (HHA) care for 1976. This research was made possible through the construction of a new data set w...
B Steinwald
B Steinwald
Hospital-based physicians (HBPs) have been the recipients of considerable attention in health policy debates in recent years. This paper discusses issues and trends concerning HBPs and presents evidence on practice characteristics, compensa...
The role of payment source in differentiating nursing home residents, services, and payments [0.03%]
支付来源在区分养老院居民、服务和付款中的作用
K Liu,J Mossey
K Liu
In 1976, it cost $10.6 billion to care for the over one million nursing home residents in the U.S. (Gibson et al, 1977). While public and private sources spent almost equal amounts, it is widely believed that differences exist between publi...
J B Mitchell,J Cromwell
J B Mitchell
Physician nonparticipation in Medicaid programs not only will restrict access of the poor to mainstream medicine but will also encourage the development of large Medicaid practices (LMPs). Policymakers have become increasingly concerned tha...
Comparative Study
Health care financing review. 1980 Summer;2(1):37-49. DOI: 1980
R M Gibson
R M Gibson
Outlays for health care in the nation reached $212.2 billion in calender year 1979--12.5 percent higher than in 1978, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Health Care Financing Administration. This estimate represented $943 per ...
C R Fisher
C R Fisher
This paper presents differences by age in health care spending by type of expenditure and by source of funds through 1978. Use of health care services generally increases with age. The average health bill reached $2,026 for the aged in 1978...
C E Bishop
C E Bishop
This review of nursing home cost function research shows that certain provider and service characteristics are systematically associated with differences in the average cost of care. This information can be used to group providers for reaso...