This study explores the reason rural Medicaid beneficiaries bypass their local rural hospitals even though their local rural hospitals provide the healthcare services that patients are seeking. Conditional logit regression was used to identify the factors that influence rural patients to bypass...

This study assesses the impact of recent Medicare reimbursement changes on nurse staffing and quality of care in skilled nursing facilities. We utilise data from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting System and Area Resource Files for the years 1997–2003. The impacts of the...

This study assesses the impact of recent Medicare reimbursement changes on nurse staffing and quality of care in skilled nursing facilities. We utilise data from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting System and Area Resource Files for the years 1997â2003. The impacts of the...