Medicare Interim Payment System's Impact on Medicare Home Health Utilization

Title
Medicare Interim Payment System's Impact on Medicare Home Health Utilization
First Author
Liu, Korbin
Date of Pub
2003 Fall
Pages
81-97
Abstract
The Medicare home health interim payment system (IPS) implemented in fiscalyear 1998 provided very strong incentives for home health agencies (HHAs) to reducethe number of visits provided to each Medicare user and to avoid those beneficiarieswhose M
Other Authors
Dowling, Krista; Long, Sharon
Issue
1
Volume
25