Care for the chronically ill: Nursing home incentive payment experiment
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- Vol. 5 (2) , 41-49
Abstract
Nursing home reinbursement systems which do not adjust payment levels to patient care needs lead to access problems for heavy-care patients. Unnecessarily long and costly hospital stays may result. A patient-based nursing home incentive reimbursement system has been designed and is being evaluated in a controlled field experiment in 36 California skilled nursing facilities. Incentives are paid for admitting heavy-care patients, meeting outcome goals on some patients, and discharging and maintaining some patients in the community.Keywords
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