Outcomes of Stroke Patients in Medicare Fee for Service and Managed Care

Patients in Medicare HMOs who experience strokes are more likely to be discharged to nursing homes and less likely to go to rehabilitation facilities following the acute event. However, they have similar survival patterns compared with comparable patients in FFS settings after adjusting for other factors.

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Year of publication:	1997-07-09
Authors:	Retchin, Sheldon M. ; Brown, Randall S. ; Yeh, Shu-Chuan Jennifer ; Chu, Dexter ; Moreno, Lorenzo
Institutions:	Mathematica Policy Research
Subject:	Stroke patients \| Medicare \| Fee for Service \| Managed Care \| Health

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Series:	Mathematica Policy Research Reports.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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