Medicare Spending and Use of Medical Services for Beneficiaries in Nursing Homes and Other Long‐Term Care Facilities: A Potential for Achieving Medicare Savings and Improving the Quality of Care
This report documents the relatively high rates of hospital stays, emergency
room visits and skilled nursing facility admissions among long-term care
facility residents. It finds that Medicare per capita spending for Medicare
beneficiaries living in nursing homes, assisted-living centers and other
long-term care facilities, $14,538 in 2006, is more than twice the average for
all other beneficiaries that year.
The report by researchers at the
Kaiser Family Foundation was released at an
Oct. 12, 2010, policy briefing.
Report (.pdf)
