-transparent.png){kind=logo}
Spiralling Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, recent revelations about unhealthy conditions in nursing homes, and pressure for national health insurance have led to increased interest in in-home health services as appropriate and cost-effective. Medicare and Medicaid provided some stimulus for development of in-home health services. Shortly after these programs went into effect, however, major policy decisions were made aimed at curbing utilization of in-home health services. California home health data for 1966-1973 document the effects of major policies that led to the development and decline of in-home health services under Medicare and Medicaid. A review of those policies, supported by the California data, indicate that in-home health services have been greatly restricted by historical underdevelopment and legislative and regulatory emphases. In addition, the study indicates the limitations of the kind of data currently collected and suggests data requirements necessary for future program evaluation and planning in home health.
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
January 1972,
The American journal of orthopsychiatry,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
January 1977,
Journal of health politics, policy and law,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
July 1976,
The American journal of psychiatry,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
May 1972,
Hospitals,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
January 1989,
Social science & medicine (1982),
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
January 1971,
Nursing outlook,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
January 1987,
Physician executive,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
January 1992,
Health systems review,
K Ricker-Smith, and
B Trager
May 1989,
Caring : National Association for Home Care magazine,
