Quantifying Productivity Growth in the Delivery of Important Episodes of Care Within the Medicare Program Using Insurance Claims and Administrative Data

John Romley, Dana Goldman, Neeraj Sood and Abe Dunn

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Abstract: We assess changes in multifactor productivity in delivering acute episodes of care (including services received after initial discharge from a hospital) for elderly Medicare beneficiaries over 2002-2014. For a majority of the eight episode types studied, productivity improved, exceeding an annualized growth rate of 1.0% in some cases. There is some evidence of negative productivity growth for heart failure episodes over this period. Our estimates reflect - and are meaningfully affected by the measurement of - trends in the quality of care, with patients experiencing improved outcomes for most episode types.

JEL-codes: E60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-10
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