Objectives: The CMS Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility
Residents: Payment Reform (NFI 2) provided billing opportunities to incentivize participating …

The current study examined the policy and market context existing in the seven states where
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Initiative to Reduce Avoidable …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Nursing facility (NF) residents are commonly hospitalized,
and many of these hospitalizations may be avoidable. A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid …

During the first year of data collection, RTI interviewed 95 key nursing and administrative
staff from the 251 participating facilities. Interview topics included Initiative implementation …

Policy Points Misaligned incentives between Medicare and Medicaid may result in
avoidable hospitalizations among long‐stay nursing home residents. Providing nursing …

Background Understanding and addressing racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of
post-acute care in skilled nursing facilities is an important health policy issue, particularly as …

Objectives To examine characteristics and locations of high‐and low‐quality skilled nursing
facilities (SNFs) and whether certain vulnerable individuals were differentially discharged to …

OBJECTIVES: To test the effect of changes in Medicaid reimbursement on clinical outcomes
of long‐stay nursing home (NH) residents. DESIGN: Longitudinal, retrospective study of …

Objectives Successful discharge of nursing home (NH) residents to community has been
reported in Nursing Home Compare (NHCompare) as a quality indicator, yet it is likely …

Objective To identify if disparate trends in the access and use of nursing home (NH) services
among Black and Latino older adults compared with White older adults persist. Access was …