Examining Post Acute Care Relationships in an Integrated Hospital System. Final Report

摘要

This report examines Medicare beneficiary episodes of post-acute care (PAC). The importance of understanding beneficiary patterns of cost and use of post-acute services is particularly critical given recent estimates from MedPAC that 2007 spending on PAC was over $45 billion dollars (MedPAC, 2008). Numerous studies have focused on the costs and use of individual services in the Medicare program, including numbers of users, program costs per user, and the factors associated with those costs and use. But few have viewed these patterns across an episode.