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Impact
of the Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System on Beneficiaries
and Program Costs
To examine the effect on agency
practices and beneficiary outcomes of the introduction of the Medicare
home health Prospective Payment System in October of 2000.
Information
Brokering for Long-Term Care
To improve the accessibility of
policy-relevant research and technical information to state and local
decision makers whose actions affect the availability of long-term care
services and the ways in which they are organized and delivered.
Trends
in Medicare Home Health Care Use: 1997-2000
To identify changes in the
use of Medicare home health care services, and federal spending for
these services, after the implementation of the prospective payment
system.
Clarifying
the Definition of Homebound and Medical Necessity Using Outcome
& Assessment Information Set (OASIS) Data
To determine the extent to which
patient assessment data collected routinely by home health agencies
(i.e., the Outcome and Assessment Information Set or OASIS), can be
used to objectively determine whether a patient is homebound or has a
medical need for home health services.
Home Care
Research Initiative (HCRI)
To support research and analysis to
improve the knowledge base underlying home care policy and practice,
with the aim of improving the delivery and financing of these services.
A program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the
Center.
Impact of
State Spending for Home Care on Frail Elders
To examine state spending on home
and community-based care services to determine whether variations
affect seniors' access to these services, and whether state programs
substitute for Medicare benefits.
An
Investigation into the Advantages of Combining Long-term Care Coverage
and a Life Annuity into a Single Retirement Plan Income Option
To examine the feasibility and
benefits of combining long-term care insurance and a life annuity into
one policy.
State
Options for Allocating Resources to Home and Community-Based Care
To identify state LTC policy
priorities, examine LTC spending patterns and allocation strategies,
and identify barriers to implementation and tradeoffs among approaches
that shift LTC resources from nursing homes to home- and
community-based services (HCBS) for seniors.
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