Abstract
Nationwide nursing home private-pay prices at the facility-level have not been available for researchers interested in studying this unique health care market. This study presents a new data source, Caregiverlist, for private-pay prices for private and semiprivate rooms for 12,000 nursing homes nationwide collected between 2008 and 2010. We link these data to publicly available national nursing home-level data sets to examine the relationship between price and nursing home characteristics. We also compare private-pay prices with average private-pay revenues per day for California nursing homes obtained from facilities’ financial filings. On average, private-pay prices were $224 per day for private rooms compared with $197 per day for semiprivate rooms. We find that nursing homes that are nonprofit, urban, hospital-based, have a special care unit, chain-owned, and have higher quality ratings have higher prices. We find average revenues per day in California to be moderately correlated with prices reported by Caregiverlist.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 449-457 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Medical Care Research and Review |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2019.
Keywords
- long-term care
- nursing home
- price
- private-pay