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Impact of postdischarge follow-up care on Medicare expenditures: does rural make a difference?
Reducing postdischarge Medicare expenditures is a key focus for hospitals. Early follow-up care is an important piece of this focus, but it is unclear whether there are rural-urban differences in the impact of follow-up care on Medicare expenditures. To assess this difference, the study authors used Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Cost and Use Files, 2000-2010 to conduct a retrospective analysis of 30-day postdischarge Medicare expenditures using two-stage residual inclusion with a quantile regression, where the receipt of 7-day follow-up care was the main independent variable.
AHRQ-funded; HS000032.
Citation: Toth M, Holmes M, Toles M .
Impact of postdischarge follow-up care on Medicare expenditures: does rural make a difference?
Med Care Res Rev 2018 Jun;75(3):327-53. doi: 10.1177/1077558716687499.
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Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Hospital Discharge, Medicare, Rural Health