Transportation and the Role of Hospitals
November, 2017
Transportation is the third most commonly cited barrier to accessing health services for older adults.
November, 2017
Transportation is the third most commonly cited barrier to accessing health services for older adults.
November, 2017
Regardless of insurance status, 4 percent of children (approximately 3 million) in the U.S. miss a health care appointment each year due to unavailable transportation; this includes 9 percent of children in families with incomes of less than $50 000.
April, 2017
When spreading the cost of the targeted non-emergent medical transportation services benefit across all enrollees in an MA plan, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s analysis projects that the added aggregate average cost across all MA enrollees would be $1.75 PBPM. Therefore, offsetting the cost of the targeted non-emergent medical transportation benefit would require a 2 percent […]
February, 2017
Consistent with previous studies, results indicate that older age and the need for accompaniment from personal care assistants were more common among participants picked-up in rural areas. Alternatively, wheel chair services and NEMT for purposes other than dialysis were less common among individuals picked-up from rural locations. For example, as previously documented, individuals transported for […]
February, 2017
For risk-bearing ACOs, the shared savings (accrued through holding actual per-beneficiary spending below the benchmark) for an individual beneficiary may not cover the cost of providing some of the more expensive supports to the beneficiary on an in-kind basis. Research suggests that self-financing through shared savings is less likely to be a barrier for other […]