Since admission and discharge dates were not provided in the data, LOS was calculated as the total number of days of care in each claim, which included the number of days of care that were chargeable and the number of days of care that were not chargeable to Medicare facility utilisation.
We recognize the potential selection bias of restricting our analysis to only Medicare-certified facilities that filed cost reports as required for receiving reimbursement from the federal government for treating Medicare patients.
The renovations were undertaken in accordance with practice standards, to enable practitioners to work in a Medicare approved facility with requisite policies and procedures in place.
To determine the association between therapy intensity and discharge outcomes for aged Medicare skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) fee-for-service beneficiaries and to determine the association between therapy intensity and time to community discharge.
With Medicare contemplating lowering facility fees for ambulatory surgery centers, experts worry that physician-owners will sell the centers to hospitals, where fees remain higher.
Change in inpatient rehabilitation admissions for individuals with traumatic brain injury after implementation of the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system.
To characterize Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents who become acutely ill with heart failure (HF) and assess the association between the outcomes of rehospitalization and mortality, and severity of the acute exacerbation, comorbidity, and processes of care.
However, 90% of antitumour necrosis factor utilisation would be captured by Medicare claims because facility-administered infliximab was the primary agent used.
Many physicians, unable to cover costs, are sending Medicare patients to other facilities for care, and some are closing their doors altogether.
The increasingly contentious issue of hospital charges drew renewed attention last week when the federal government released Medicare data showing that facilities nationwide submitted widely divergent bills for the same treatments.
