. . . . . . . . . "Home Care Reimbursement, Long-term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes"@en . "Home Care Reimbursement, Long-term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes" . . . . . . . . . . . . "How care reimbursement, long-term care utilization, and health outcomes"@en . . . "Long-term care currently comprises almost 10% of national health expenditures and is projected to rise rapidly over coming decades. A key, and relatively poorly understood, element of long-term care is home health care. I use a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy, which took the form of tightly binding average per-patient reimbursement caps, to address several questions about the market for home care. I find that the reimbursement change was associated with a large drop in the provision of home care. This drop was concentrated among unhealthy beneficiaries, which is consistent with the incentives for patient selection inherent in the per-patient caps. I find that the decline in home health utilization was not offset by increases in institutional long-term care or other medical care and that there were no associated adverse health consequences. However, approximately one-quarter of the decline in Medicare spending was offset by increases in out-of-pocket expenditures for home health care, with the offset concentrated in higher income populations. Despite the value of home health care implied by the out-of-pocket expenditures, I find that the welfare implications of the reimbursement change were ambiguous." . "\"Long-term care currently comprises almost 10% of national health expenditures and is projected to rise rapidly over coming decades. A key, and relatively poorly understood, element of long-term care is home health care. I use a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy, which took the form of tightly binding average per-patient reimbursement caps, to address several questions about the market for home care. I find that the reimbursement change was associated with a large drop in the provision of home care. This drop was concentrated among unhealthy beneficiaries, which is consistent with the incentives for patient selection inherent in the per-patient caps. I find that the decline in home health utilization was not offset by increases in institutional long-term care or other medical care and that there were no associated adverse health consequences. However, approximately one-quarter of the decline in Medicare spending was offset by increases in out-of-pocket expenditures for home health care, with the offset concentrated in higher income populations. Despite the value of home health care implied by the out-of-pocket expenditures, I find that the welfare implications of the reimbursement change were ambiguous\"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site."@en . . . . . . . "Home care reimbursement, long-term care utilization, and health outcomes"@en . "Home care reimbursement, long-term care utilization, and health outcomes" . . . . . . . . . . "USA" . . "Zonder onderwerpscode: economie." . . "National Bureau of Economic Research" . . "Medicare economics." . . "Familienpflege" . . . . "Long-Term Care utilization United States." . . "Reimbursement Mechanisms United States." . . "Pflegedienst / Familienpflege / Gesundheitskosten / USA." . . "Outcome Assessment (Health Care) United States." . . "Pflegedienst" . . "Gesundheitskosten" . . "Home Care Services economics United States." . .