The Influence of Medicare Home Health Payment Incentives: Does Payer Source Matter?

During the late 1990s, the U.S. government instituted an interim payment system (IPS) to constrain Medicare home health care expenditures. Previous research has focused largely on the implications of the IPS for Medicare patients; this study broadens the analysis to consider patients with other paye...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David C. Grabowski, David G. Stevenson, Haiden A. Huskamp, Nancy L. Keating
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2006-05-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_43.2.135