Hospital patients with severe wounds: early evidence on the impact of Medicare payment changes on treatment patterns and outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: The new LTCH payment policy is associated with no changes in Medicare spending and mortality but higher readmissions and post-discharge sepsis rates among severe wound patients with a high likelihood to use an LTCH. PMID: 30547697 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - Category: Health Management Tags: J Med Econ Source Type: research