Medicare and Medicaid

Study data from University of Pennsylvania update understanding of medicare and medicaid

Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, January 17th, 2008

According to recent research from the United States, "The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act allowed hospitals meeting certain criteria to convert to critical access hospitals (CAH) and changed their Medicare reimbursement mechanism from prospective payment system (PPS) to cost-based. To examine the impact of CAH conversion on hospital patient safety. Data Source."

"Secondary data on hospital patient safety indicators (PSIs), hospital CAH status, patient case-mix, and market variables, for 89 Iowa rural hospitals during 1997-2004. We employed quasi-experimental designs that use both control groups and pretests. The hospital-year...

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Source: Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly (2008-01-17)

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