Medicare's prospective payment system for long-term acute-care hospitals (LTCHs) pro- vides modest reimbursements at the beginning of a patient's stay before jumping discontinuously to a large lump-sum payment after a pre-specified number of days. We show that LTCHs respond to financial...

Medicare's prospective payment system for long-term acute-care hospitals (LTCHs) pro- vides modest reimbursements at the beginning of a patient's stay before jumping discontinuously to a large lump-sum payment after a pre-specified number of days. We show that LTCHs respond to financial...

Durch den demographischen Wandel und die Zunahme der Pflegebedürftigen, den Rückgang familiärer Pflegepotentiale sowie den Fachkräftemangel in der Pflege geraten die nationalen Care-Regime unter Druck. Hier setzt die Vergleichsstudie von Diana Auth an. Sie zeichnet die pflegepolitischen...