title: Financing and home health agencies.
abstract: Home health agencies are examined with reference to changes that have occurred in their financing as a result of DRGs. Comparisons are made based on organizational affiliation and findings indicate agencies that become affiliated with larger and more complex organizations are more frequently proprietary agencies. In other ways, however, nonprofit and proprietary agencies are becoming more similar. Both types of agencies are increasingly interested in reducing reliance on government funding.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000191:economics*; D010067:Ownership / Q000191:economics*; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States