A Comparison of Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Hospital Discharge Rates for Medicaid HMO Enrollees and Nonenrollees  

Oleh:

Porell, Frank W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Medical Care Research and Review vol. 58 no. 4 (Dec. 2001), page 404-424.
Topik: Medicaid health maintenance organization
Fulltext: 404MCR58.4.pdf (90.62KB)

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With an increasing volume of Medicaid recipient enrollees in managed care, many states are developing tools for monitoring service quality and access of Medicaid recipients. This article explores the use of ambulatory care–sensitive (ACS) hospital discharge rates as a simple, practical indicator tool for monitoring the access of Medicaid health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees through an empirical application in Massachusetts in 1995. Although unadjusted hospital discharge rates were lower, Medicaid HMO enrollees had higher age-gender-race adjusted total and ACS hospital discharge rates than Medicaid recipients enrolled in a primary care case management program under feefor-s ervice reimbursement. HigherHMOdischarge rates for the specific ACS conditions of asthma and dehydration were suggestive of potential HMO access problems.

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