Comparison of Home Health and Hospice Care Agencies by Organizational Characteristics and Services Provided: United States, 2007
Home health and hospice care has grown over recent years (1–4). This growth may be due to a combination of factors. Patients and families may have become more aware of home health care services as an alternative, in some cases, to traditional inpatient care (5,6). Patients’ preferences for spending their last days at home (7), and bereaved family members’ high satisfaction with hospice care (8) may have been another contributing factor to the increase in hospice use (3,9). At the same time, changes in the Medicare payment system may underlie some of the recent growth in home health and hospice care agencies. Medicare is the single largest payer for both home health and hospice care (9,10) and, hence, changes in the Medicare payment system associated with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) had a major impact according to most observers (11–13). Initially BBA implementation seemed to have resulted in a considerable number of home health care agencies’ exits from the market (11).
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Comparison of Home Health and Hospice Care Agencies by Organizational Characteristics and Services Provided: United States, 2007
Home health and hospice care has grown over recent years (1–4). This growth may be due to a combination of factors. Patients and families may have become more aware of home health care services as an alternative, in some cases, to traditional inpatient care (5,6). Patients’ preferences for spending their last days at home (7), and bereaved family members’ high satisfaction with hospice care (8) may have been another contributing factor to the increase in hospice use (3,9). At the same time, changes in the Medicare payment system may underlie some of the recent growth in home health and hospice care agencies. Medicare is the single largest payer for both home health and hospice care (9,10) and, hence, changes in the Medicare payment system associated with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) had a major impact according to most observers (11–13). Initially BBA implementation seemed to have resulted in a considerable number of home health care agencies’ exits from the market (11).
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| BN ID: | 2940013542761 |
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| Publisher: | The Delano Max Wealth Institute, LLC. |
| Publication date: | 11/26/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 71 KB |
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