ArticleJournal of health economics2019
Do report cards predict future quality? The case of skilled nursing facilities.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Trends and Disparities in Post-acute Care Utilization After Hospitalization for Sepsis in the United States: A Systematic Review.Medical care · 2026Pooled it
- Medicaid Lesser-of Rules and Disparities in Skilled Nursing Facility Quality.JAMA health forum · 2026Article
- Access to and Choice of High-Quality Skilled Nursing Facility Care for Veterans After Hospitalization: A Cohort Analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Post-Hospital Access to Preferred and High-Quality Skilled Nursing Facilities for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder.Health services research · 2026Article
- Differences in Skilled Nursing Facilities Admitting Medicare Patients With and Without COVID-19 After Hospitalization.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- PRODUCING HEALTH: MEASURING VALUE ADDED OF NURSING HOMES.Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society · 2025Article
- Do Medicare Beneficiaries Under Accountable Care or Medicare Advantage Use Lower Quality Nursing Homes?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Impact of skilled nursing facility quality on Medicare beneficiaries with dementia: Evidence from vacancies.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Disparities in Access to Highly Rated Skilled Nursing Facilities among Medicare Beneficiaries with Opioid Use Disorder.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024Observational
- The health effects of nursing home specialization in post-acute care.Journal of health economics · 2023Article
- Measuring Nursing Home Performance Using Administrative Data.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2023Article
- Trends in Supply of Nursing Home Beds, 2011-2019.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Risk of Discharge to Lower-Quality Nursing Homes Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality.Journal of health economics · 2022Article
- Rural/urban differences in discharge from rehabilitation in older adults with traumatic brain injury.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Patients discharged from higher-quality skilled nursing facilities spend more days at home.Health services research · 2021Article
- Higher Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Are Associated With Improvements In Patient Outcomes.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2021Article
- Assessment of Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Use and Survival Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Skilled Nursing Facility Patients Discharged to Home Health Agency Services Spend More Days at Home.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Article
- Association of Online Consumer Reviews of Skilled Nursing Facilities With Patient Rehospitalization Rates.JAMA network open · 2020Article
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Abstract
Report cards on provider performance are intended to improve consumer decision-making and address information gaps in the market for quality. However, inadequate risk adjustment of report-card measures often biases comparisons across providers. We test whether going to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) with a higher star rating leads to better quality outcomes for a patient. We exploit variation over time in the distance from a patient's residential ZIP code to SNFs with different ratings to estimate the causal effect of admission to a higher-rated SNF on health care outcomes, including mortality. We found that patients who go to higher-rated SNFs achieved better outcomes, supporting the validity of the SNF report card ratings.
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