This report examines the effects of the Independence at Home payment incentive. It also assesses whether home-based primary care affects spending and hospital use for dually eligible patients and describes the association between home-based primary care use and end-of-life expenditures.
This brief presents findings on state- and county- level SSA administrative data with two goals in mind: (1) to introduce the RETAIN demonstration and its objectives to a broad audience and (2) to support RETAIN states in their planning for Phase 2 of the demonstration.
We use state variation in the experience of the Great Recession and subsequent recovery to explain the deviation of Social Security Disability Insurance awards from historical trends in the period from 2008 through 2014.
Awards of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits to disabled workers increased rapidly and then declined in the decade after the Great Recession began.
This report describes the implementation and impacts of the Independence at Home demonstration over its first four years. Also, the report examines whether home-based primary care reduces Medicare expenditures and hospital use.