The Balanced Budget Act (1997) and the supply of nursing home subacute care

Journal of Health Care Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 38-47

  Qaseem, Amir ^a   Weech Maldonado, Robert ^b   Mkanta, William ^c  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicare; Nursing homes; Prospective payment system; Subacute care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INTENSIVE CARE; LAW; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REIMBURSEMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BUDGETS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBACUTE CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349118316     PISSN: 10786767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Fogel, L.A. and K. Gossman-Klim (1995), "Getting Started with Subacute Care," Healthc Financ Manage, 49(10): 64-65, 68, 70 passim;
2. Dollard, K. J. (1998), "Skilled Nursing Facility Subacute Care," Cost Qual Q J, 4(1): 36-38.
3. Zinn, J.S. and V. Mor (1994), "Nursing Home Special Care Units: Distribution by Type, State, and Facility Characteristics," Gerontologist, 34(3): 371-377;
4. Miller S.C., Mor V., "The Emergence of Medicare Hospice Care in US Nursing Homes," Palliat Med 2001;15(6): 471-480.
5. U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). Nursing Homes: Aggregate Payments are Adequate despite Bankruptcies. Washington, DC: US GAO; 2000;
6. Liu K, Black K.J., "Hospital-Based and Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facilities: Any Cause for Differential Medicare Payments?" Inquiry 2003;40(1):94-104.
7. Guterman, S., P. W. Eggers, et al. (1988), "The First 3 Years of Medicare Prospective Payment: An Overview," Health Care Financ Rev 9(3): 67-77;
8. Latta V.B., Keene R.E., "Use and Cost of Sskilled Nursing Facility Services Under Medicare," 1987, Health Care Financ Rev 1989;11(1):105-116;
9. Neu C.R., Harrison S., Posthospital Care Before and After the Medicare Prospective Payment System,. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
10. Levenson, S.A., (1998), "Subacute Settings: Making the Most of a New Model of Care," Geriatrics 53(7): 69-74;
11. Molis, D.B., (1993), "New Directions in Long Term Care: The Eemergence of Subacute Care," Provider 19(8): 22-24, 30-32.
12. McCall, N., J. Korb, et al. (2003), "Reforming Medicare Payment: Early Effects of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act on Postacute Care," Milbank Q 81 (2): 277-303, 172-173.
13. See GAO, supra n.3.
14. Angelelli, J., D. Gifford, O. Intrator, P. Gozalo, L. Laliberte, and V. Mor (2002), "Access to Postacute Nursing Home Care Before and After the BBA." Health Affairs 21(5): 254-264.
15. Banaszak-Holl, J., J. S. Zinn, et al. (1996), "The limpact of Market and Organizational Characteristics on Nursing care Facility Service Innovation: A Resource Dependency Perspective," Health Serv Res 31(1): 97-117.
16. Cook, T.D. and D.T. Campbell (1979), QuasiExperimentation: Design & Analysis Issues for Field Settings, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.
17. Heckman, J.J. (1979), "Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error," Econometrica 47(1): 153-161.
18. Wheeler, J.R., J. Burkhardt, et al. (1999), "Financial and Organizational Determinants of Hospital Diversification into Subacute Care," Health Serv Res 34(1 Pt 1): 61-81.
19. Swan, J., V. Bhagavatula, A. Algotar, et al., "State Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement Rates: Adjusting for Ancillaries," The Gerontologist 41 no.5 (2001): 597-605.
20. See supra, n.9.
21. See supra, n.9.
22. Huitema, B.E. and J.W. McKean (2000), "Design Specification Issues in Time-Series Intervention Models," Educational and Psychological Measurement 60(1): 38-58.
23. Pfeffer, J. and G.R. Salancik (1978), The External Control of Organizations : A Resource Dependence Perspective, New York, Harper & Row.
24. Zinn, J.S., V. Mor, et al. (1999), "Organizational and Eenvironmental Factors Associated with Nursing Home Participation in Managed Care," Health Serv Res 33(6): 1753-1767.
25. See supra, n.17.
26. Similar results were obtained when we used a HI based on private pay residents' market shares instead of total market share.
27. Harrington C, Anzaldo S, Burdin A, Kitchener M, Miller N, "Trends in State Certificate of Need and Moratoria Programs for Long Term Care Providers," J Health Soc Policy 2004;19(2): 31-58.
28. See Zinn and Mor, supra, n.2.
29. See supra, n.9.
30. Kennedy P., A Guide to Econometrics, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press; 1992.
31. See supra, n.8.
32. See supra, n.18.
33. See supra, n.6.
34. See supra, n.8.