Cross-Subsidization in Nursing Homes: Explaining Rate Differentials Among Payer Types.

Are Medicaid patients being subsidized by other residents in nursing homes? This article employs cross-sectional data on nursing homes and residents in a multiproduct empirical cost analysis to obtain the benchmark magnitudes of patient service costs needed to assess the issues. The estimated cost f...

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Published in:Southern Economic Journal Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 750 - 774
Main Author: Troyer, Jennifer L.
Format: Article
Published: Southern Economic Association April 2002
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