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Nursing home ownership trends and their impacts on quality of care: a study using detailed ownership data from TexasDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 25:30-47. 2013....
Medicare part D claims rejections for nursing home residents, 2006 to 2010David G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Manag Care 18:647-54. 2012..Our objective was to study the overall rate at which Part D claims are rejected, whether these rates differ across plans, drugs, and medication classes, and how these rejection rates and reasons have evolved over time...- Medicare part D and the nursing home settingDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Gerontologist 48:432-41. 2008..The purpose of this article is to explore how the introduction of Medicare Part D is changing the operations of long-term-care pharmacies (LTCPs) and nursing homes, as well as implications of those changes for nursing home residents... - Targeting nursing homes under the Quality Improvement Organization program's 9th statement of workDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1678-84. 2009.... - Hospice care in the nursing home setting: a review of the literatureDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 38:440-51. 2009..The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have taken steps toward collecting these data, and further research is needed to shed light on what refinements, if any, are necessary for the Medicare hospice program... 
Private long-term care insurance and state tax incentivesDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Inquiry 46:305-21. 2009..Ultimately, the modest ability of state tax incentives to lower premiums implies that they should be viewed as a small piece of the long-term care financing puzzle...- Differences in hospice care between home and institutional settingsDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Palliat Med 10:1040-7. 2007..To compare hospice care delivered at home with hospice care delivered in institutional settings, such as the nursing home... - Medicare Part D and nursing home residentsDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1115-25. 2007..Finally, it is unclear how well nursing homes and the pharmacies they work with will work across Part D plans, and vigilance will be required as the benefit proceeds... - Antipsychotic and benzodiazepine use among nursing home residents: findings from the 2004 National Nursing Home SurveyDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:1078-92. 2010..To document the extent and appropriateness of use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines among nursing home residents using a nationally representative survey... - Nursing home consumer complaints and their potential role in assessing quality of careDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 43:102-11. 2005..Complaint investigations play a key role in quality assurance, because they can respond to concerns of consumers and families... - Private equity investment and nursing home care: is it a big deal?David G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1399-408. 2008..Nonetheless, recent nursing home ownership trends raise important questions about oversight and accountability, whose answers extend beyond private equity ownership... - Long and short hospice stays among nursing home residents at the end of lifeHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Palliat Med 13:957-64. 2010..To identify characteristics of nursing homes and residents associated with particularly long or short hospice stays... - Supporting home- and community-based care: views of long-term care specialistsDavid C Grabowski
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:82S-101S. 2010..Building on the long-term care specialists' enthusiasm for system-based reforms, we encourage state policy makers to pursue HCBS models that are linked to Medicare, engage primary care physicians, and are based on rigorous evaluations... - The complementarity of public and private long-term care coverageDavid G Stevenson
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:96-101. 2010.... - Ownership status and home health care performanceDavid C Grabowski
Associate Professors of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 21:130-43. 2009..These results highlight the importance of organizational and payment factors in the delivery of home health care services... - Assisted living expansion and the market for nursing home careDavid C Grabowski
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Health Serv Res 47:2296-315. 2012..To analyze the effect of market-level changes in assisted living supply on nursing home utilization and resident acuity... - A new medicare end-of-life benefit for nursing home residentsHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:130-5. 2010..Nursing homes would be paid directly for end-of-life care services and held accountable for their quality... - Rejections of drug claims for nursing home residents under Medicare Part DHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:560-7. 2008..We examined data on claims in rejected status for one large long-term care pharmacy as of December 2006. There was considerable variation across PDPs in both rejection rates and reasons for rejection... - The influence of Medicare home health payment incentives: does payer source matter?David C Grabowski
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Inquiry 43:135-49. 2006..However, these changes did not translate into worse discharge outcomes... - Coverage and prior authorization of psychotropic drugs under Medicare Part DHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:308-10. 2007..The effect of Part D will depend on the restrictiveness of the prior authorization and appeals processes, which is currently unknown... - Planning for the future--long-term care and the 2008 electionDavid G Stevenson
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 358:1985-7. 2008 - Ownership conversions and nursing home performanceDavid C Grabowski
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1184-203. 2008..To examine the effects of ownership conversions on nursing home performance... - Nursing home litigation and tort reform: a case for exceptionalismDavid M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Gerontologist 44:588-95. 2004..Drawing on findings from our previous study of nursing home litigation, we outline these features and argue for careful attention to them as policymakers evaluate options for reform... - Medicare expenditures among nursing home residents with advanced dementiaKeith S Goldfeld
Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:824-30. 2011..To our knowledge, Medicare expenditures have not been extensively described in this population... - The intersection of long-term care and end-of-life careHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:3-44. 2012..The authors recommend areas for future research that would help to support progress on public policy that governs the provision of care at this important intersection... - Sizing up the market for assisted livingDavid G Stevenson
Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:35-43. 2010..As this sector evolves, policymakers will have to contend with issues related to access to services, public financing, quality of care, and regulatory oversight... - Nursing home consumer complaints and quality of care: a national viewDavid G Stevenson
Harvard University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 63:347-68. 2006..This study presents the first national evidence for using consumer complaints to assess nursing home quality of care. Despite limitations, nursing home complaints appear to offer a real-time signal of quality concerns... - The rise of nursing home litigation: findings from a national survey of attorneysDavid G Stevenson
Harvard University, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:219-29. 2003..These findings elevate concerns about quality of nursing home care and indicate that litigation diverts resources from resident care, which may fuel quality problems... - Is a public reporting approach appropriate for nursing home care?David G Stevenson
Harvard Medical School
J Health Polit Policy Law 31:773-810. 2006..It is unclear whether the absence of a larger reporting effect to date is specific to Nursing Home Compare or whether it inheres to the broader task of using quality information to promote change in the nursing home care sector...