Hospice Home Care Cost Savings to Third-Party Insurers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9103416 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles H Brooks (Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author), Kathleen Smyth-Staruch |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 691-703 |
| Publication date | 1984-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-198408000-00002 |
| PMID | 6381920 |
| OpenAlex | W2088877993 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
A population-based, retrospective analysis of Medicare Part A and Blue Cross hospital insurance claims data was used to determine whether hospice home care cost savings to third-party insurers are substantial and result from the substitution of less expensive home care visits for more costly hospital inpatient days. The study was carried out by comparing the third-party payments of Cuyahoga County residents who died of cancer and were served by a hospice home care program (n = 152) with the insurance payments of cancer patients who never received hospice home care (n = 1,397). The data strongly supported the research hypothesis. The relative use of hospital days decreased more than 50% and the use of home care visits increased 10-fold when dying patients shifted from conventional care to hospice home care. This change in use represented a relative savings of about 40%, ranging from $1,089 per patient during the last 2 weeks of life to $2,676 per patient during the last 12 weeks of life. These results were not accounted for by group differences in age, type of cancer, or personal preference for home care
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2022 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |