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Risk of Hospitalization Associated with Use of Consumer-Directed Attendant Care.

Raymond Van CleveEvan S ColeColeman DrakeGrant R MartsolfHoward B Degenholtz
Published in: Journal of aging & social policy (2024)
Older people with disabilities living independently often use attendant care, also known as Personal Assistive Services (PAS). The aides providing care can come from a home health agency contracted by the state Medicaid authority, known as agency-directed PAS, or the Medicaid recipient can receive a monthly budget and arrange their own care, known as consumer-directed care. Consumer-directed care is hypothesized to have some possible benefits but could also potentially lead to health hazards. This study examined whether people receiving consumer-directed PAS versus people receiving agency-directed PAS faced a higher risk of hospitalization. The data for this study came from Pennsylvania Medicaid claims, enrollment files, standardized assessments, and hospitalization claims from Medicare and Medicaid. The analysis used two-stage least square regression, with the percentage of people in a county using consumer-directed care as an instrument for the type of PAS. People using consumer-directed care did not have a statistically significant difference in risk for hospitalization compared to people using agency-directed PAS ( p  = .976). Risk of hospitalization was not different for people using consumer-directed care compared to people using agency-directed care.
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