Rural-Urban Differences in Medicare Quality Outcomes and the Impact of Risk Adjustmentqualityruralmedicaresocial determinantsBackground: There has been considerable debate in recent years about whether, and how, to risk-adjust quality measures for sociodemographic characteristics. However, geographic location...
Payers with a large rural population could consider supplementing their care delivery footprint to address care gaps (for example, through virtual-care models). Many payers would benefit from simultaneously pursuing multiple strategies, particularly as acuity in the Medicare population accelerates. ...
Study results suggest that Medicare beneficiaries living with ADRD in rural and micropolitan counties survived about 1.5 months less than beneficiaries in metropolitan counties after adjustment for beneficiary and zip code characteristics. Importantly, the unadjusted rural-urban survival gap was small, and...
42-49 Importantly, we identified nursing home residence to be a significant risk factor associated with COVID-19 and subsequent death. Previous studies reported that nursing home residents, comprising less than 5% of the population, accounted for about 25% of COVID-19–related deaths nationwide....
CMS also plans to adopt ahealth equitybenchmark adjustment to incentivize further participation in the Shared Savings Program, specifically by ACOs that serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries inrural and underserved communities. What's more, CMS is actively finalizing a new method fo...
States which have a higher prevalence of PD may have a larger proportion of high-risk factor patient groups, a higher concentration of providers who recognize and document PD, increased public awareness of PD symptoms, or increased health care seeking behaviors among people living in the state. ...
Section 204 of MACRA extends the more generous low-volume adjustment standards until October 1, 2017. Section 205: Extension of the Medicare-Dependent Hospital Program Medicare-dependent hospitals (MDHs) are small, rural hospitals with a high proportion of patients who are Medicare beneficiaries. Spec...
budget neutral fashion; and (3) replace the permanent rural short-mileage add-on for ground ambulance transports with a new adjustment directing increased payment to ground transports originating in geographically isolated low-volume areas, in order to target payments in rural areas to protect access...
1.The primary method for a hospital to qualify for the Medicare DSH adjustment is based on a statutory formula that results in the DSH patient percentage.” That formula is reviewed below. 2.“The alternate, special exception method is for large urban hospitals that can demonstrate that more ...
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