The Impact of Hospital-Acquired Conditions on Medicare Program Payments
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The impact of hospital-acquired conditions on Medicare program payments.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE Hospital-acquired conditions, or HACs, often result in additional Medicare payments, generated during the initial hospitalization and in subsequent health care encounters. The purpose of this article is to estimate the incremental cost to Medicare, as measured by Medicare program payments, of six HACs. STUDY DESIGN The researchers used a matched case-control design to deter...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicare & Medicaid Research Review
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2159-0354
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.004.04.a01