Do medicaid wage pass-through payments increase nursing home staffing?

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 728-747

  Feng, Zhanlian ^a   Lee, Yong Suk ^a   Kuo, Sylvia ^a   Intrator, Orna ^a,b   Foster, Andrew ^a   Mor, Vincent ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Community Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Direct care staff; Medicaid; Nursing homes; Wage pass through

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAID; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REIMBURSEMENT; SALARY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICAID; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING HOMES; NURSING STAFF; NURSING, PRACTICAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77951920376     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01109.x     Document Type: Article

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