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    "pk": 59199,
    "title": "Quality and Value Monitoring of Acute-Care Hospitals",
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    "abstract": "Rising medical costs is a real and imminent problem; as a major health care services provider, Medicare covers nearly 16% of the U.S. population. This paper aims to investigate factors that a ect the cost and quality of acute care hospitals reim- bursed by Medicare. Multiple datasets from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and IRS were merged to evaluate the e ect of hospital ownership and local socioeconomic levels on hospital performance, based on three main quality metrics: average cost per bene ciary, 30-day readmission rate, and hospital acquired conditions (HAC) score. Both variables were found to have statistically signi cant e ects. In addition, the results showed that CMS policy may have unfairly penalized hospitals serving more vulnerable populations, by using a metric that did not consider hospital location in lower income neighborhoods.",
    "language": "en",
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    "section": "Research",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85p6s6pr",
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        {
            "first_name": "Grace",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Deng",
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            "institution": "",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": "2017-06-26T10:33:10-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2017-06-26T10:33:10-07:00",
    "date_published": "2016-12-31T16:00:00-08:00",
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