This study used 1982–1986 data on 262 private community hospitals to evaluate the effects of selective contracting for inpatient services by California's Medicaid program. Selective contracting by Medicaid signif...
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This study used 1982–1986 data on 262 private community hospitals to evaluate the effects of selective contracting for inpatient services by California's Medicaid program. Selective contracting by Medicaid significantly reduced the rate of inflation in average costs per admission and per patient day, while slightly increasing average lengths of patient stays. Private sector contracting also reduced cost inflation rates significantly and caused small, non-significant, reductions in lengths of stays. Hospital savings in 1986 due to Medicaid selective contracting were $836 million, 7.6% of what hospital expenditures would have been in the absence of contracting.
We investigate the relationship between low birthweight, enrollment in special education and special education costs in the U.S. We use a sample of approximately 8,000 children aged 6 to 15 who are in school, calculat...
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We investigate the relationship between low birthweight, enrollment in special education and special education costs in the U.S. We use a sample of approximately 8,000 children aged 6 to 15 who are in school, calculating the probability of attending special education, holding constant individual, family and regional variables. Children who weighed less than 2,500 grams at birth are almost fifty percent more likely to be enrolled in any type of special education than children who were of normal weight at birth. This results in an incremental cost of special education of $370.8 million (1989-1990) per year due to low birthweight.
This article presents national estimates of the probability of having an unintentional injury, the types of medical care associated with unintentional injuries, and the costs of unintentional injuries that occurred in...
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Several recent studies have explored gender differences in medical care that are not attributable to clinical characteristics. At an 880-bed teaching hospital between July 1987 and June 1990, we studied the importance...
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Several recent studies have explored gender differences in medical care that are not attributable to clinical characteristics. At an 880-bed teaching hospital between July 1987 and June 1990, we studied the importance of gender on two measures of hospital care. length of stay and ancillary service use. The later was measured on a relative value unit (RVU) scale, based on an estimation of direct cost dollars. Neither mean age nor in-hospital mortality differed between the 9,102 women and 10,285 men. After case-mix adjustment, women stayed in the hospital 0.22 days longer than men (p = 0.01) but consumed 67 fewer RVUs (p = 0.01). This RVU difference dissolved when intensive care unit (ICU) stays were eliminated, men were 1.13 times more likely (95% confidence interval 1.07 to 1.19) to be placed in the ICU. Being married shortened length of stay and women were less likely to be married (51% vs. 68%;p < 0.001), but even within marital status subgroups women remained in the hospital longer than men. Whether this longer length of stay and less technologically intensive care for women reflects a difference in illness severity or physician gender bias requires further study.
Rural primary care programs were established in areas where there was thought to be no competition for patients. However, evidence from site visits and surveys of a national sample of subsidized programs revealed a pa...
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The reluctance of nursing homes to admit Medicare beneficiaries is well recognised. A possible explanation is that under the current Medicare reimbursement policy, nursing homes do not have adequate incentives to incr...
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The reluctance of nursing homes to admit Medicare beneficiaries is well recognised. A possible explanation is that under the current Medicare reimbursement policy, nursing homes do not have adequate incentives to increase admissions. This paper examines that hypothesis. Using a national sample of nursing homes, Medicare-specific marginal costs were estimated from a flexible form of the cost function. In most cases, Medicare-specific marginal costs were well above Medicare reimbursement rates. From an investigation of economies of scale and economies of scope, it appears that reimbursements may be sufficient only in nursing homes that specialize in Medicare beneficiaries. Unless Medicare reimbursements are brought in line with costs, access of Medicare beneficiaries to the nursing homes will remain limited.
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