title: State-level impacts of Medicare Part D.
abstract: In recent research, we explored the impact of the Medicare Part D program on hospitalization rates for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) among elderly Americans.1 Our results indicate that Part D reduced a summary measure of ACSC hospitalization by 20.5 per 10,000, a percentage change of 4.1 percent. This change represents approximately 42,000 admissions, roughly half of the overall reduction in admissions in our 23-state sample during our study period (2005-2007). In this brief, we explore the state-level implications of the findings from our paper, by estimating the number of avoided hospitalizations in each state.
authors: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. afendulis@hcp.med.harvard.edu
authors: Christopher C
authors: CC
authors: Afendulis
authors: Michael E
authors: ME
authors: Chernew
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D054524:Medicare Part D / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014481:United States