"Nursing homes have an incentive to hospitalize some residents more often than others," said Helena Temkin-Greener, Ph.D., M.P.H., senior author of the study and associate professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "This study provides strong evidence that these financial incentives may motivate consideration of payer source in the decision whether or not to hospitalize an individual."
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