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| Transitions in healthcare use and expenditures among frail older adults by payor/provider type | | Author(s) | Deborah N Pearlman, Laurence G Branch, Ronald J Ozminkowski |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 5, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp 550-557 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Costs [care] ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study examined whether transitions in health care expenditures and service use differed over an 18-month period by payor/provider type: Medicare fee-for-service, Medicaid-Medicare, and Medicare HMO. Data was collected from a sample of 450 frail older people in California, by means of surveys. Logistic regression analyses showed that subjects enrolled in Medicare HMO were nearly twice as likely as Medicaid-Medicare beneficiaries to have consistently low expenditures. Other expenditure patterns showed no major differences between payor/provider type. The study concluded that more emphasis should be given to providing incentives for managed care organisations and the traditional Medicare fee-for-service system to develop efficient and cost-effective ways of caring for frail older people. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970812259 A |
| Classmark | L: QDC: QLD: 7T |
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