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| Ownership status and home health care performance | | Author(s) | David C Grabowski, Haiden A Huskamp, David G Stevenson |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 21, no 2, April-June 2009 |
| Publisher | Routledge, April-June 2009 |
| Pages | pp 130-143 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Home nursing ; Commercial care ; Voluntary agencies ; Discharge ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Few studies have analysed for-profit and non-profit differences in the home health care sector. Using data from the US National Home and Hospice Care Survey, the authors found that patients in non-profit agencies were more likely to be discharged within 30 days under Medicare cost-based payment, compared to patients in for-profit agencies. However, this difference in length of enrolment did not translate into meaningful differences in discharge outcomes between for-profit and non-profit patients, suggesting that, under a cost-based payment system, non-profit may behave more efficiently relative to for-profits. These results highlight the importance of organisational and payment factors in the delivery of home health care services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100907008 A |
| Classmark | N3: N4: PI: PK: QKJ: 48: 7T |
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