Do Aged Medicare Patients Receive More Costly Routine Nursing Services: Evidence Inconclusive
HRD-82-32
Published: Jan 20, 1982. Publicly Released: Jan 20, 1982.
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Many in the hospital industry maintain that elderly patients require more daily routine nursing services than other hospital patients. Based partly on this, Medicare pays a routine nursing salary cost differential. GAO analyzed existing studies relating to the existence and size of the routine nursing salary cost differential and proposed a methodology that it would use if asked to make such a study.
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Cost analysisElderly personsHealth care cost controlHealth care servicesNursesMedicareHospital administrationMedical services ratesPatient care servicesHospitals