Curt D Mueller
Biographic Data
| ID | 8927524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Curt D Mueller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Curt D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mueller |
| SIGNATURE | MUELLER C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Project HOPE |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rural Implications of Medicare's Post‐Acute‐Care Transfer Payment Policy
Context: Under the Medicare post‐acute‐care (PAC) transfer policy, acute‐care hospitals are reimbursed under a per‐diem formula whenever beneficiaries are discharged from selected diagnosis‐related groups (DRGs) to a skilled nursing facility, home health care, or a prospective payment system (PPS)‐excluded facility. Total per‐diem payments are below the full DRG payment only when the patient's length of stay (LOS) is short relative to the geometr…
Insurance Coverage of Prescription Drugs and the Rural Elderly
Context: Rural impacts of a Medicare drug benefit will ultimately depend on the number of elderly who are currently without drug coverage, new demand by those currently without coverage, the nature of the new benefit relative to current benefits, and benefit design. Purpose: To enhance understanding of drug coverage among rural elderly Medicare beneficiaries and their expenditures for pharmaceuticals. Methods: Estimates of the extent of coverage,…
New Policy Ideas for Rural Health Care Delivery
Prescription drug spending
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine how pharmaceutical expenditures vary by age and the presence of chronic health problems. METHODS: Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were used to obtain nationally representative estimates of outpatient prescription drug expenditures for the noninstitutionalized population and the fraction of total health expenditures used to purchase medications for age-chronic disease popu…
Standardizing Nursing-Home Admission Dates for Short-Term Hospital Stays
In the Institutional Population Component of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, the definition of a nursing home admission was standardized to ignore the readmission of patients discharged for short-term hospital care. Approximately one out of six persons residing in nursing homes on the survey reference date (January 1, 1987) had been readmitted for this reason. The effect of the standardization was to increase the average length of s…
Prescription drug spending
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine how pharmaceutical expenditures vary by age and the presence of chronic health problems. METHODS: Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were used to obtain nationally representative estimates of outpatient prescription drug expenditures for the noninstitutionalized population and the fraction of total health expenditures used to purchase medications for age-chronic disease popu…
Standardizing Nursing-Home Admission Dates for Short-Term Hospital Stays
In the Institutional Population Component of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, the definition of a nursing home admission was standardized to ignore the readmission of patients discharged for short-term hospital care. Approximately one out of six persons residing in nursing homes on the survey reference date (January 1, 1987) had been readmitted for this reason. The effect of the standardization was to increase the average length of s…
Prescription drug spending
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine how pharmaceutical expenditures vary by age and the presence of chronic health problems. METHODS: Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were used to obtain nationally representative estimates of outpatient prescription drug expenditures for the noninstitutionalized population and the fraction of total health expenditures used to purchase medications for age-chronic disease popu…
New Policy Ideas for Rural Health Care Delivery
Insurance Coverage of Prescription Drugs and the Rural Elderly
Context: Rural impacts of a Medicare drug benefit will ultimately depend on the number of elderly who are currently without drug coverage, new demand by those currently without coverage, the nature of the new benefit relative to current benefits, and benefit design. Purpose: To enhance understanding of drug coverage among rural elderly Medicare beneficiaries and their expenditures for pharmaceuticals. Methods: Estimates of the extent of coverage,…
Rural Implications of Medicare's Post‐Acute‐Care Transfer Payment Policy
Context: Under the Medicare post‐acute‐care (PAC) transfer policy, acute‐care hospitals are reimbursed under a per‐diem formula whenever beneficiaries are discharged from selected diagnosis‐related groups (DRGs) to a skilled nursing facility, home health care, or a prospective payment system (PPS)‐excluded facility. Total per‐diem payments are below the full DRG payment only when the patient's length of stay (LOS) is short relative to the geometr…
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