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The impact of payor/provider type on health care use and expenditures among the frail elderly.

B Experton, Z Li, L G Branch, R J Ozminkowski and D M Mellon-Lacey

HUMETRIX, Inc., San Diego, CA 92122, USA.

OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether health care expenditures and usage by the frail elderly differ under three payor/provider types: Medicare fee for service, Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO), and dual Medicare-Medicaid enrollment. METHODS: In-home interviews were conducted among 450 frail elderly patients of a San Diego, Calif, health care system. Cost and use data were collected from providers. RESULTS: Analyses revealed no difference in total expenditures between fee-for-service and HMO enrollees, but Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries' expenditures were 46.8% higher than those for HMO enrollees and 52.2% higher than those for the fee-for-service group. Fee-for-service participants were less than half as likely as HMO enrollees to have two or more hospital admissions, but hospital usage rates between those two payor/provider groups did not differ. Not were there payor/provider differences in access to home health care, but HMO home health care users received significantly fewer services than the others. CONCLUSIONS: The care provided to these HMO beneficiaries resulted in a combination of restricted home health use and higher multiple hospitalizations. This raises compelling questions for future research. For the dually enrolled, stronger cost containment may be required.

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