Medicaid nursing home pay for performance: Where do we stand?

Gerontologist

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 587-595

  Arling, Greg ^a,b   Job, Carol ^c   Cooke, Valerie ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Myers and Stauffer   (United States)

^d Nursing Facility Rates and Policy Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentives; Long term care; Policy; Quality of care; Reimbursement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB SATISFACTION; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAID; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; QUALITY OF LIFE; REIMBURSEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

CONSUMER SATISFACTION; GEORGIA; IOWA; KANSAS; MEDICAID; MINNESOTA; NURSING HOMES; OHIO; OKLAHOMA; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349469785     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnp044     Document Type: Article

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