Browsing The Health Care Financing Initiative by Creation Date
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The Looming Reorganization of Skilled Nursing Facility and Home Health Services – Policy Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Environment
(2021-04)COVID-19 focused attention on the shortcomings of post-acute care. Growing financial and operational challenges for skilled nursing facilities (SNF) is leading to instability, reallocating transitions of care from SNF to ... -
COVID-Related Health Insurance Changes and Implications for Provider Relief Funds
(2021-06)To cover health care related expenses or lost revenues associated with the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), Congress authorized a total of $178 billion dollars in Provider Relief Funds (PRF). To date, when allocating ... -
Comparing Capacity and Demand for Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals: Variation Between Mid- and South-Atlantic Hospital Referral Regions
(2021-08)Geographic variation in post-acute care is a recurrent theme in health services research because of its relevance to overall Medicare spending. There are at least two additional reasons to understand geographic differences ... -
What Role Did Post-Acute Care Providers Play in Addressing the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency?
(2021-08-02)Although short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs) are the nation’s frontline in fighting severe COVID-19 infections, the post-acute care (PAC) sector—home health agencies (HHAs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient ... -
Persistent Symptoms in Long Haul COVID Patients Emphasize Need for Specialty Hospital Care
(2021-09)This brief paper is a preliminary exploration of the long-haul patient and a discussion of the integral role LTCHs have and continue to play in the treatment and recovery of this patient population. The paper concludes ... -
Home Health Expansion Requires Innovation in Nursing Education
(2021-09-10)The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the central role of nurses as the nexus of quality homecare. Their value, in all of their forms, has never been clearer: Nurses are leaders, care coordinators, highly-skilled ... -
The Role of Post-Acute Care Providers in Addressing the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: An Update
(2022)In an August 2, 2021 report, we examined changes in post-acute care (PAC) use patterns in traditional Medicare during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to July 2020). We documented the role of PAC providers ... -
Covid-19 Continues to Intensify Long-Standing Nursing and Staffing Shortages
(2022)In an August 2, 2021 report, we examined changes in post-acute care (PAC) use patterns in traditional Medicare during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to July 2020). We documented the role of PAC providers ... -
Looking Back to Move Forward: The Impact of COVID-19 on Post-Acute Patients, Providers, and Public Policy
(2022-08)The norms of health care turned upside down in March 2020 with the declaration by the World Health Organization of a global COVID-19 pandemic. Rarely in U.S. history have our health care systems, practices, research, and ...
