Medicaid admissions and readmissions: Understanding the prevalence, payment, and most common diagnoses

Health Affairs

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1337-1344

  Trudnak, Tara ^a   Kelley, David ^b   Zerzan, Judy ^b   Griffith, Katherine ^c   Jiang, H Joanna ^d   Fairbrother, Gerry L ^c  

^a Altarum Institute   (United States)

^b Department of Public Welfare ^*  (United States)

^c ACADEMYHEALTH   (United States)

^d AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MENTAL DISEASE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAID; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905976427     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0632     Document Type: Article

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