Nursing home care is expensive; second only to acute hospital care for inpatient Medicare
costs. The increased focus on costs of care accrued by Medicare beneficiaries in nursing …

Objective Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) does not account
for social risk factors in risk adjustment, and this may lead the program to unfairly penalize …

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Background: Older adults admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) are at risk for developing
impairments in function, cognition, and mental health. It is not known whether …

Objective. Our objective is to estimate and compare the prevalence of selected adverse
consequences associated with unmet need for assistance among a socioeconomically and …

Background: Little is known about how the geographic variation and disparities in use of
elective primary total hip and knee replacements for Medicare beneficiaries have evolved in …

As hospitals are increasingly held accountable for patients' post-discharge outcomes under
new payment models, hospitals may choose to acquire skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to …

This paper uses patient-level administrative data on skilled nursing facilities in California to
estimate a structural model of selective admissions in the nursing home industry. I exploit …

Worker shortages are common in many industries. This paper examines the effect of
government subsidies to address these shortages in the context of a reform that tied …

We provide empirical evidence on the relative importance of specific observable factors that
can explain why individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid (duals) are …