ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2016
The Effect of Publicized Quality Information on Home Health Agency Choice.
Article in Medical care research and review : MCRR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Public Reporting and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Sector.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2024Article
- Claims-Based vs Agency-Reported Patient Outcomes Among Home Health Agencies, 2013-2019.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Potentially More Out of Reach: Public Reporting Exacerbates Inequities in Home Health Access.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- Accounting for past patient composition in evaluations of quality reporting.Health services research · 2022Article
- Consumer selection and home health agency quality and patient experience stars.Health services research · 2022Article
- Evidence for Action: Addressing Systemic Racism Across Long-Term Services and Supports.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
- Quality information disclosure and health insurance demand: evidence from VA hospital report cards.International journal of health economics and management · 2020Article
- Entry regulation and the effect of public reporting: Evidence from Home Health Compare.Health economics · 2019Article
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Abstract
We examine consumers' use of publicized quality information in Medicare home health care markets, where consumer cost sharing and travel costs are absent. We report two findings. First, agencies with high quality scores are more likely to be preferred by consumers after the introduction of a public reporting program than before. Second, consumers' use of publicized quality information differs by patient group. Community-based patients have slightly larger responses to public reporting than hospital-discharged patients. Patients with functional limitations at the start of their care, at least among hospital-discharged patients, have a larger response to the reported functional outcome measure than those without functional limitations. In all cases of significant marginal effects, magnitudes are small. We conclude that the current public reporting approach is unlikely to have critical impacts on home health agency choice. Identifying and releasing quality information that is meaningful to consumers may help increase consumers' use of public reports.
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