Dissertation Title： "The New Medicare Prospective Payment System for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Impacts on Payments, Services and Quality of Care"
In 1998 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began phasing in a new prospective payment...
Dissertation Title： "The Consumer’s Role in Nursing Home Quality"
My thesis focuses on the consumer's role in nursing home quality. Using five years of data from Massachusetts Department of Public Health (1998-2002), the first chapter explores whether...
Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Long-Term Care Decision-Making Among the Elderly"
In the first chapter, the question of whether individuals respond to financial incentives in nursing home entry decisions is answered. The motivation for this work...