Annual Expenditures for Nursing Home Care

• DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0b013e3181893f8e
• Publication Date: 2009-05-21T13:48:11Z
• Authors: Kate A. Stewart; David C. Grabowski; Darius N. Lakdawalla
• Keywords: Population Dynamics; 03 medical and health sciences; Life Expectancy; 0302 clinical medicine; Activities of Daily Living; Humans; Disabled Persons; Aged; Bed Occupancy; Quality of Health Care; Health Facility Size; Medicaid; Ownership; 1. No poverty; Health Care Costs; United States; Nursing Homes; 3. Good health; Fees and Charges; Health Care Surveys; Inflation, Economic; 8. Economic growth; Nursing Staff; Health Expenditures

Background: Long-term nursing home care is primarily funded by out-of-pocket payments and public Medicaid programs. Few studies have explored price growth in care, particularly trends the real cost of a year spent home. Objectives: To evaluate changes private prices for annual from 1977 to 2004, compare overall medical care. Research Design: We estimated between 2004 using data National Nursing Home Survey. compared obtained surveys state offices, evaluated Bureau Labor Statistics Consumer Price Indexes homes, general goods services over time. Results: Annual pay homes grew 7.5% annually $8645 $60,249 2004. 6.7% $9491 1979 $48,056 outpaced other (7.5% vs. 6.6% 4.4%, respectively) Conclusions: The recent rapid likely persist, because an aging population greater disability among near-elderly. result will place increasing financial pressure on Better are critical policy-makers researchers.