Inpatient Hospital Prices Drive Spending Variation for Episodes of Care for Privately Insured Patients

Chapin White, James D. Reschovsky and Amelia M. Bond

Mathematica Policy Research Reports from Mathematica Policy Research

Abstract: This issue brief finds that when episodes of care involving hospitalizations, similar to Model 2 of the ongoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Bundled Payment for Care Improvement demonstration, are applied to privately insured patients, inpatient prices drive the bulk of episode-spending variation.

Keywords: Inpatient; Hospital; Prices; Spending; Variation; Privately; Insured; Patients; NIHCR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8
Date: 2014-02-28
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