Thirty-Day and 90-Day Episode of Care Spending Following Heart Failure Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Reinhardt SW, Clark KAA, Xin X, Parzynski CS, Riello R, Sarocco P, Ahmad T, Desai NR. Thirty-Day and 90-Day Episode of Care Spending Following Heart Failure Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality And Outcomes 2022, 15: e008069. PMID: 35861780, DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.121.008069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHypertensive heart diseaseIndex hospitalizationMedicare beneficiariesPost-acute care spendingService administrative claims dataMedicare Bundled PaymentsHeart failure admissionsHeart failure hospitalizationPrimary discharge diagnosisChronic kidney diseaseAdministrative claims dataCare spendingPostacute care spendingSkilled nursing facilitiesCare Improvement ProgramDrivers of costDiastolic HFHF careHF hospitalizationSystolic HFFailure hospitalizationDischarge diagnosisKidney diseaseObservation staysPostacute careContemporary US Trends In Heart Transplantation And LVAD Index Hospitalizations: Volumes Increase, Utilization And Cost Vary Over Time, 2015-2018
Clark K, Reinhardt S, Chouairi F, Miller E, Kay B, Fuery M, Guha A, Ahmad T, Desai N. Contemporary US Trends In Heart Transplantation And LVAD Index Hospitalizations: Volumes Increase, Utilization And Cost Vary Over Time, 2015-2018. Journal Of Cardiac Failure 2022, 28: s65. DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2022.03.165.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLength of stayHeart transplantationHospital mortalityIndex hospitalizationLVAD implantationLonger median LOSMedian LOSLonger LOSPost-discharge utilizationNational Inpatient SampleHospitalization volumeInpatient mortalityHispanic patientsAsian patientsInpatient SampleHospitalizationMortalityStudy periodUS trendsPatientsTransplantationAdmissionLVADImplantationHigh percentage