Association of in-hospital resource utilization with post-acute spending in Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction: a cross-sectional study

• Hauptverfasser: Sudhakar V. Nuti (Verfasst von), Shu-Xia Li (Verfasst von), Xiao Xu (Verfasst von), Lesli S. Ott (Verfasst von), Tara Lagu (Verfasst von), Nihar R. Desai (Verfasst von), Karthik Murugiah (Verfasst von), Michael Duan (Verfasst von), John Martin (Verfasst von), Nancy Kim (Verfasst von), Harlan M. Krumholz (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Efforts to decrease hospitalization costs could increase post-acute care costs. This effect could undermine initiatives to reduce overall episode costs and have implications for the design of health care under alternative payment models. Methods Among Medicare fee-for-service ben...