Post-acute referral patterns for hospitals and implications for bundled payment initiatives

Healthcare

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 190-195

  Lau, Christopher ^a   Alpert, Abby ^b   Huckfeldt, Peter ^c   Hussey, Peter ^c   Auerbach, David ^c   Liu, Hangsheng ^c   Sood, Neeraj ^d   Mehrotra, Ateev ^e  

^a Pardee RAND Graduate School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundled payment; Post acute care; Referral network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84908028699     PISSN: 22130764     EISSN: 22130772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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