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Nursing Home Discharges and Exhaustion of Medicare Benefits / Alan M. Garber, Thomas E. MaCurdy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garber, Alan M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3639.
- NBER working paper series no. w3639
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1991.
- Summary:
- The price sensitivity of demand for nursing home care is a subject of considerable policy interest. Standard methods for measuring price responsiveness are difficult to apply to nursing home care, since accurate price information is usually unavailable and prices may reflect unmeasured quality characteristics. We estimate price sensitivity by exploiting the dynamic price variation implicit in Medicare payment rules for nursing home care. We determine whether the hazard rate for nursing home discharge shifts in response to the price changes that occur when Medicare coverage diminishes or ends. Our findings provide strong evidence that the duration of nursing home admissions is sensitive to price.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 1991.
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