{"pk":59199,"title":"Quality and Value Monitoring of Acute-Care Hospitals","subtitle":null,"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","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Research","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85p6s6pr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Grace","middle_name":"","last_name":"Deng","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2017-06-26T17:33:10Z","date_accepted":"2017-06-26T17:33:10Z","date_published":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59199/galley/45214/download/"}]}