ArticleMedicare & medicaid research review2012
Public reporting and market area exit decisions by home health agencies.
Article in Medicare & medicaid research review, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Potentially More Out of Reach: Public Reporting Exacerbates Inequities in Home Health Access.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- Evidence for Action: Addressing Systemic Racism Across Long-Term Services and Supports.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
- Out Of Reach: Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health Agencies.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2022Article
- The Effect of Publicized Quality Information on Home Health Agency Choice.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2016Article
- Malpractice Environment vs Direct Litigation: What Drives Nursing Home Exit?Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether home health agencies selectively discontinue services to areas with socio-economically disadvantaged people after the introduction of Home Health Compare (HHC), a public reporting program initiated by Medicare in 2003. STUDY DESIGN /
methodsWe focused on agencies' initial responses to HHC and examined selective market-area exits by agencies between 2002 and 2004. We measured HHC effects by the percentage of quality indicators reported in public HHC data in 2003. Socio-economic status was measured by per capita income and percent college-educated at the market-area level. DATA SOURCES: 2002 and 2004 Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS); 2000 US Census file; 2004 Area Resource File; and 2002 Provider of Service File. PRINCIPAL
findingsWE FOUND A SMALL AND WEAK EFFECT OF PUBLIC REPORTING ON SELECTIVE EXITS: a 10-percent increase in reporting (reporting one more indicator) increased the probability of leaving an area with less-educated people by 0.3 percentage points, compared with leaving an area with high education.
conclusionThe small level of market-area exits under public reporting is unlikely to be practically meaningful, suggesting that HHC did not lead to a disruption in access to home health care through selective exits during the initial year of the program.
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