When world views collide: a commentary on home health care case-mix and patient outcomes.
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has developed a prospective payment system for home-health care that is primarily focused on cost-containment. This new payment system results in a change in a case-mix for treatment that was more care-outcome based. The new case mix is compared to the old case mix with respect to research that is ignored regarding care outcome.
Elias
J W
JW
Sanford Center on Aging, University of Nevada, Reno 89557, USA. jelias@unr.edu
Ferry
R
R
Treland
J
J
D000368:Aged; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006302:Health Services Research; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care