McCall Nelda, Korb Jodi, Petersons Andrew, Moore Stanley
Health Care Financ Rev. 2002 Winter;24(2):57-76.
The implementation of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 resulted in substantial decreases in the amount of Medicare home health use. Use among home health users decreased by two-fifths from fiscal year (FY) 1997, just before the passage of the BBA to FY 1999, the first full year after the implementation of the home health interim payment system. This article examines whether these dramatic reductions in use resulted in increased incidence of potential adverse outcomes, i.e., increases in hospitalizations, skilled nursing home facility admissions, emergency room (ER) use, or death among home health users.
1997年《平衡预算法案》(BBA)的实施导致医疗保险家庭健康服务的使用量大幅下降。从1997财年(就在BBA通过之前)到1999财年(家庭健康临时支付系统实施后的第一个完整年份),家庭健康服务使用者的使用量减少了五分之二。本文探讨了这些使用量的大幅减少是否导致了潜在不良后果的发生率增加,即家庭健康服务使用者的住院率、专业疗养院入院率、急诊室(ER)使用率或死亡率的增加。