Research Catalog

Title

Outpatient institutional rehabilitation services, 1987-1990 : who provides them and how do they compare? / Joan L. Buchanan, J. David Rumpel, Helen Hoenig.

Author

Buchanan, Joan, 1947-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rumpel, J. David.
• Hoenig, Helen.

Description

xiii, 56 pages; 28 cm

Summary

The overall growth of Medicare Part B charges for rehabilitation services is high and if unabated, will exacerbate Medicare's cost containment problem. Regression models show that the pattern of therapy used, the use of multiple providers, and patient characteristics and diagnostic categories all have an impact on charges. However, even controlling for all other factors, independent rehabilitation agencies consistently had the highest charges across all models, and hospital outpatient departments the lowest. Thus, if rehabilitation services are included in Medicare's projected new payment reform, Ambulatory Payment Groups, and if the reform covers only hospital outpatient departments, it would encourage a shift to more expensive providers.

Subject

• Hospitals > Rehabilitation services
• Hospitals > Outpatient services
• Clinics
• Ambulatory medical care
• Rehabilitation centers
• Costs and Cost Analysis
• Ambulatory Care
• Health Services Research > economics
• Medicare Part B
• Practice Patterns, Physicians' > economics
• Rehabilitation Centers
• Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
• clinics (institutions, medical)
• rehabilitation centers
• Rehabilitation centers
• Clinics
• Ambulatory medical care
• Hospitals > Outpatient services
• Hospitals > Rehabilitation services
• United States

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.

Note

• "MR-154-HCFA."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 55-56).

ISBN

• 0833013955
• 9780833013958

LCCN

94139138

OCLC

• ocm28277138
• 28277138
• SCSB-2025512

Owning Institutions

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