Per-episode prospective payment for Medicare home health care sharply reduces service use

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by  Trenholm, Christopher Allen

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Project Specifics
SRNumber 94-082
ProjectNumber 500-94-0062
ProjectTitle EvaluationofPhaseII ofthe HomeHealthAgencyProspectivePayment
Demonstration
Awardee MathematicaPolicyResearch
ProjectOfficer Meadow, Ann
Principle Investigator Cheh, Valerie
Funding Level 4013874
StartDate 09/30/1994
EndDate 04/30/2001
ProjectDescription: This contract is evaluatingPhase II oftheHome HealthAgency(HHA) Prospective
PaymentDemonstration, underwhichHHAs are paidon aprospectivebasis foran
episode ofcare reimbursedbytheMedicareprogram. (Phase I testedper-visit
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DocumentTitle Per-EpisodeProspectivePaymentforMedicareHomeHealthCare SharplyReduces ServiceUse
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Project Specifics
SRNumber 94-082
ProjectNumber 500-94-0062
ProjectTitle EvaluationofPhaseII oftheHomeHealthAgencyProspectivePayment
Demonstration
Awardee MathematicaPolicyResearch
ProjectOfficer Meadow, Ann
PrincipleInvestigator Cheh, Valerie
Funding Level 4013874
StartDate 9/30/94
EndDate 4/30/01
ProjectDescription: This contractis evaluatingPhase II oftheHomeHealthAgency(HHA) Prospective
PaymentDemonstration,underwhichHHAs arepaidonaprospectivebasis foran
episodeofcarereimbursedbytheMedicareprogram. (PhaseItestedper-visit
prospectivepayme
Initiated (CMS): sgalloway Date: 15-May-02 Accepted (IQ): Date:
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Released (IQ): Date: Received (Sub): Date:
Finished (Sub): Date: QC'd (IQ): Date:
Returned (IQ): Date: «.; pproved (CIVIS): Date:
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Contract No.: 500-94-0062
MPR
Reference No. 8246-121
Per-Episode Prospective
Payment for Medicare
Home Health Care
Sharply Reduces
Service Use
December2000
Christopher Trenholm
Submitted to: Submitted by:
Health Care Financing Administration Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
7500 Security Blvd, (C-3-21-06) P.O. Box 2393
MD
Baltimore, 21244-1850 Princeton, NJ 08543-2393
[phone]
Project Officer: Project Director:
Arm Meadow
Valerie Cheh
Principal Investigator:
Randall Brown

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In preparing this report, I received support from many colleagues for which I am grateful:
Valerie Cheh and Randall Brown contributed their policy expertise and offered extensive and
thoughtful comments throughout the research; Judith Wooldridge provided an excellent critical
review; Barbara Phillips contributed to the background chapters through previous work; Elizabeth
Stuart and Amy Zambrowski provided comprehensive and outstanding programming support;
Marjorie Mitchell adeptlyproducedthereportwith assistance fromJenniferBaskwell, Denise Dunn,
Cindy McClure, Jill Miller, and JaneNelson; and Laura Berenson provided skilled editorial support
with help from Walter Brower and Patricia Ciaccio. Ann Meadow ofHCFA provided very useful
comments to an earlier draft ofthe report. Any errors or omissions in this report are my own.
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