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Simulation and Analysis of an Alternative Medicare Home Health Payment System Not Based on Number of Therapy Visits

Description
Outlines a possible approach to redesigning the Medicare home health payment system and describes the likely impacts of such a change. Includes statistics with breakdowns by number of therapy and non-therapy visits, payment-to-cost ratios, medical procedure or chronic illness, and type of health facility.
Author(s)
Doug Wissoker, Bowen Garrett
Date
08/2015
Type
Document
Organization
Urban Institute
Tagged as
Home health · Medicare · Reimbursement and payment models

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