2013
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12059
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Medicare Payment Reform and Provider Entry and Exit in the Post‐Acute Care Market

Abstract: Objective. To understand the impacts of Medicare payment reform on the entry and exit of post-acute providers. Data Sources. Medicare Provider of Services data, Cost Reports, and Census data from 1991 through 2010. Study Design. We examined market-level changes in entry and exit after payment reforms relative to a preexisting time trend. We also compared changes in high Medicare share markets relative to lower Medicare share markets and for freestanding relative to hospital-based facilities. Data Extraction Me… Show more

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“…Following cuts in Medicare home health reimbursement, the supply of home health agencies contracted as more providers exited and fewer new providers entered the market (Choi and Davitt ; Huckfeldt et al. ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Following cuts in Medicare home health reimbursement, the supply of home health agencies contracted as more providers exited and fewer new providers entered the market (Choi and Davitt ; Huckfeldt et al. ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Changes in utilization as a result of payment reforms may be partly attributed to corresponding shifts in provider supply. Following cuts in Medicare home health reimbursement, the supply of home health agencies contracted as more providers exited and fewer new providers entered the market (Choi and Davitt 2009;Huckfeldt et al 2013).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We refer to the change in the severity or type of patients seen at IRFs after the implementation of the IRF-PPS as the “selection” effect of the IRF-PPS. Total capacity, measured either by number of IRFs or the number of Medicare certified beds, was increasing before and after the IRF-PPS (Huckfeldt et al 2012). Also, occupancy rates were only 69% in 2002 in the first year of the IRF-PPS (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission 2011b), so IRFs had capacity available to admit newly profitable patients after the IRF-PPS.…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although several studies have analyzed the effects of IPS, none have looked at how the effects of the IPS on costs or intensity of care varied by the initial level of competition in the market (P.J. Huckfeldt et al, 2014; Peter J Huckfeldt, Sood, Romley, Malchiodi, & Escarce, 2013; Liu, Long, & Dowling, 2002; McCall, Komisar, Petersons, & Moore, 2001; Murtaugh, McCall, Moore, & Meadow, 2003; Porell, Liu, & Brungo, 2006). In this paper we add to this literature by analyzing how the effects of IPS varied by the level of competition.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%