Long-term acute care hospitals and Georgia Medicaid: Utilization, outcomes, and cost:

SAGE Open Medicine

Evan S.Cole¹ 

关键词: Long-term acute care hospital;    Medicaid;    epidemiology/public health;    respiratory medicine;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312116670928

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objectives:Because most research on long-term acute care hospitals has focused on Medicare, the objective of this research is to describe the Georgia Medicaid population who received care at a long-term acute care hospital, the type and volume of services provided by these long-term acute care hospitals, and the costs and outcomes of these services. For those with select respiratory conditions, we descriptively compare costs and outcomes to those of patients who received care for the same services in acute care hospitals.Methods:We describe Georgia Medicaid recipients admitted to a long-term acute care hospital between 2011 and 2012. We compare them to a population of Georgia Medicaid recipients admitted to an acute care hospital for one of five respiratory diagnosis-related groups. Measurements used include patient descriptive information, admissions, diagnosis-related groups, length of stay, place of discharge, 90-day episode costs, readmissions, and patient risk scores.Results:We found that long-term a...

【 授权许可】

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