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ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2025

Home Health Care Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries From 2010 to 2020.

Seiyoun Kim, Mingyu Qi, R Tamara Konetzka, Rachel M Werner

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Article in Medical care research and review : MCRR, 2025. 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.

  1. Patient-Driven Grouping Model and Home Health Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2026
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4 authors.

Seiyoun KimUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1733-2373
Mingyu QiThe University of Chicago, IL, USA.
R Tamara KonetzkaThe University of Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3016-1318
Rachel M WernerUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Funding

Caregiving after discharge from the hospitalR01AG066114 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WERNER, RACHEL M · 2019 to 2022
$2.1M
Midcareer Mentoring Award for Patient-Oriented Research in AgingK24AG047908 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WERNER, RACHEL M · 2014 to 2024
$2.0M
NIA NIH HHS K24 AG047908NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medicare home health coverage is an important resource for Medicare beneficiaries requiring health care at home. However, there have been changes in the United States health care system that might impact home health utilization such as pressures to constrain Medicare spending, growth in Medicare Advantage (MA) plan enrollment, decline in institutional long-term care and growth of Medicaid home- and community-based services. Given these changes, we examined home health care use trends among beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare (TM) and MA from 2010 to 2020. We separately examined home health episodes that were initiated after a hospital or skilled nursing facility discharge and those initiated within the community and among dually and non-dually eligible beneficiaries. Home health use decreased among TM enrollees for both community-initiated and post-discharge needs but increased among MA enrollees for community-initiated home health use. Increases in community-initiated home health use were concentrated in non-dually eligible beneficiaries.

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Home Care ServicesMedicareMedicare Part CAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleUnited Stateshome healthlong-term careMedicareMedicare Advantagetraditional Medicare

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PMID39972931
PMCPMC12018719

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