Medicare nursing home resident hospitalization rates merit additional monitoring.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicare beneficiaries--Medical care--Government policy.

Medicare beneficiaries.

Nursing home residents--Medical care--United States--Finance.

Nursing home residents.

Intensive care nursing--Finance--Government policy--United States.

Intensive care nursing.

Hospitalization--statistics & numerical data.

Nursing Homes--statistics & numerical data.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Hospitalization--statistics & numerical data.

Nursing Homes--statistics & numerical data.

United States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, 2013.

Summary:

In FY 2011, nursing homes transferred one quarter of their Medicare residents to hospitals for inpatient admissions, and Medicare spent $14.3 billion on these hospitalizations. Nursing home residents went to hospitals for a wide range of conditions, with septicemia the most common. Annual rates of Medicare resident hospitalizations varied widely across nursing homes. Nursing homes with the following characteristics had the highest annual rates of resident hospitalizations: homes located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Oklahoma and homes with one, two, or three stars in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Five-Star Quality Rating System.

Notes:

Title from title caption (viewed on May 13, 2015).

"November 2013."

"OEI-06-11-00040."

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

909301566