Reductions in Medicare payments and patient outcomes: an analysis of 5 leading Medicare conditions

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Shen, Yu-Chu
Wu, Vivian Y.
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Medicare
payment reductions
patient outcomes
instrumental variables
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2013-11
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Background: The Affordable Care Act enacted significant Medicare payment reductions to providers, yet the effects of such major reductions on patients remain unclear. We used the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 as a natural experiment to study the long-term consequence of major payment reductions on patient outcomes. Objectives: To analyze whether mortality trends diverge over the years between hospitals facing different levels of payment cuts because of the BBA for 5 leading conditions: acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, stroke, pneumonia, and hip fracture.
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8 p.
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Medical Care, Volume 51, Number 11, November 2013
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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