Mortality rates within 360 days of admission to Medicaid reimbursed long-term care services.
Current long-term care (LTC) initiatives in many states are aimed at reducing cost by diverting certain members of the long-term care population into more cost effective home and community-based care. To date, very little has been done to monitor the subsequent mortality rates in these care situations. This project reports that approximately 35% of the individuals in a single admission cohort to Medicaid-reimbursed LTC in Virginia died within 360 days of their initial admission. When the data are separated by intermediate versus skilled levels of care and institutional versus community-based care settings, substantial differences in mortality rates between levels of care and care settings can be observed.
Family and Child Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
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D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009026:Mortality; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014768:Virginia