Archive of Special Populations (children, elderly, disabled)

Transportation and the Role of Hospitals

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.

Author

American Hospital Association

Improving Care for High-Need, High-Cost Medicare Patients

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 […]

Author

Bipartisan Policy Center

Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Needs of Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Rural-Urban Comparison in Delaware, USA

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 […]

Author

Matthew Lee Smith, Thomas R. Prohaska, Kara E. MacLeod, Marcia G. Ory, Amy R. Eisenstein, David R. Tagland, Cheryl Irmiter, Samuel D. Towne Jr., and William A. Satariano

Challenges and Opportunities in Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Medicare Patients: BPC Preliminary Findings and Policy Options

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 […]

Author

Bipartisan Policy Center