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Impact Of Hospital Characteristics On Patients’ Experience Of Hospital Care: Evidence From 14 States, 2009-2011, Emily M. Johnston, Kenton J. Johnston, Jaeyong Bae, Jason M. Hockenberry, Ariel C. Avgar, Arnold Milstein Md, Mph, Sandra S. Liu, Ira Wilson, Edmund Becker
Impact Of Hospital Characteristics On Patients’ Experience Of Hospital Care: Evidence From 14 States, 2009-2011, Emily M. Johnston, Kenton J. Johnston, Jaeyong Bae, Jason M. Hockenberry, Ariel C. Avgar, Arnold Milstein Md, Mph, Sandra S. Liu, Ira Wilson, Edmund Becker
Patient Experience Journal
This paper uses patient responses to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey for three years (2009-2011) from 1,333 acute-care hospitals in fourteen states to analyze patterns in 10 hospital-reported patient experience-of-care scores by 29 characteristics classified as: patient characteristics, payer source, patient severity, hospital characteristics, hospital operations, and market characteristics. We also evaluate how scores have changed over the three-year period. We find significant differences in patient experience-of-care scores by hospital characteristics for 250 out of 290 HCAHPS-hospital characteristic combinations measured. We find fewer significant differences in changes in scores from 2009-2011 (135 out of …
Variations In The Patients’ Hospital Care Experience By States’ Strategy For Medicaid Expansion: 2009-2013, Edmund Becker, Kenton Johnston Phd, Jaeyong Bae, Jason M. Hockenberry Phd, Ariel C. Avgar, Sandra Liu, Ira Wilson, Arnold Milstein Md, Mph
Variations In The Patients’ Hospital Care Experience By States’ Strategy For Medicaid Expansion: 2009-2013, Edmund Becker, Kenton Johnston Phd, Jaeyong Bae, Jason M. Hockenberry Phd, Ariel C. Avgar, Sandra Liu, Ira Wilson, Arnold Milstein Md, Mph
Patient Experience Journal
Our investigation evaluates the extent of differences in the patient’s hospital experience due to variations among state strategies to adopt, or not adopt, their Medicaid plans to the 2010 ACA legislation. Using ten HCAHPS measures, we analyze patient hospital experience data for the 2009 - 2013 period for all 50 states and the District of Columbia grouped by those states that (1) did not expand, (2) expanded Medicaid through Section 1115 waivers, (3) expanders early, and (4) expanded Medicaid concurrent with the new ACA legislation.
Our findings reveal that those states that opted out of Medicaid expansion typically started with …