Skilled nursing facilities
Subtitle: available data show average nursing staff time changed little after Medicare payment increase : report to congressional committees.
Contributors: United States. General Accounting Office.
Publisher: United States General Accounting Office
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Nursing homes -- United States -- Finance.; Medicare.; Skilled Nursing Facilities -- economics -- United States.; Prospective Payment System -- economics -- United States.; Medicare -- economics.; Medicaid -- economics.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Cover title.
"November 2002."
"GAO-03-176."
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Table of contents: value: Appendix I, Data source and data verification methods for nurse staffing ratio analysis; value: Appendix II, Average change in nursing staff time between 2000 and 2001, grouped by category of SNF; value: Appendix III, Comments from the centers for Medicare & Medicaid services; value: Appendix IV, GAO contact and staff acknowledgements.