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7861830

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-23
pubmed:abstractText
Although much is known about who pays the annual aggregate nursing home bill, relatively little is known about payment-source patterns of individuals during their lifetimes. In this article, lifetime payment-source patterns are analyzed for elderly nursing home users, particularly the extent to which they spend down assets to become eligible for Medicaid. During their lifetimes, 44% of persons who use nursing homes after 65 years of age start and end as private payers, 27% start and end as recipients of Medicaid benefits, and 14% spend down assets to become eligible for Medicaid benefits. Although still a relatively small proportion, the asset spend-down estimate based on lifetime data is 2.5 times previous national estimates based on data for single nursing home stays. The projected risk of spending down assets in nursing homes for all persons who turn 65 years of age in 1995, including users and nonusers of nursing homes, is slightly more than 6%. Equally or more important for policy is that 17% of all persons who turn 65 years of age can expect to end up using a nursing home and receiving Medicaid reimbursement. Of those, more than 3 in 5 will have entered the nursing home already eligible for Medicaid benefits.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0025-7079
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
33
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
280-96
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Lifetime patterns of payment for nursing home care.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Long Term Care Studies, Center for Intramural Research, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Bethesda, MD 20852.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study