Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/23243 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2005-06
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
Medicare?s prospective payment system (PPS), introduced in 1983, pays hospitals a fixed price for each stay rather than reimbursing costs. Previous studies evaluated its first few years using endogenous measures to control for heterogeneity in patients? health. We examine PPS over a full decade using competing risks Cox survival models and a national longitudinal survey with independent information on patients? health. New findings include: risk of death in hospital increased; risk of discharge to a nursing home continued to increase as PPS matured; and risk of nursing home admission from the community following hospital discharge rose. HMOs may have contributed to these outcomes.
JEL: 
C41
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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