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Post-Acute Care Episodes Expanded Analytic File
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Prepared for:
Susan Bogasky
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 443F5
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201Prepared by:
Barbara Gage, PhD, Melissa Morley, PhD, Melvin Ingber, PhD, and Laura Smith, PhD
RTI International
1440 Main Street, Suite 310
Waltham, MA 02451RTI Project Number 0208824.002.007
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
In Collaboration with the
U.S. Department of LaborThis study provides an opportunity to explore additional research questions as the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to consider alternatives to the prospective payment silos in post-acute care (PAC).
This project expands ASPE's Medicare post-acute care (PAC) episode analytic file in terms of sample size and the number of years used (2006-2008) to provide more detailed characteristics of PAC episodes under different definitions. This analysis provides information on changes in PAC use, allows for more detailed understanding of the patterns of PAC use by geography, and provides a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. In addition, this work uses acute Medicare hospital and community entrant initiated episode definitions.
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1. Background
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2. Post-Acute Care Episode Definitions
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3. Acute Hospital-Initiated Episodes
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4. Community-Initiated Episodes
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5. Mortality Analyses
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6. Geographic Benchmarking
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7. Longitudinal Cohort Analyses
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8. Discussion and Policy Implications
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9. References
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Endnotes
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