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A survey of state medicaid policies on nursing home legal risk management programs
Author(s) -
Kapp Marshall
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
perspectives in healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 0899-1073
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.5600100104
Subject(s) - medicaid , reimbursement , business , risk management , actuarial science , public economics , health care , finance , economics , economic growth
This survey studied Medicaid policies on reimbursing long‐term care facilities for costs associated with legal risk management programs. Of the 45 responding jurisdictions, 26 allow risk management reimbursement (within allowable limits) as a general administrative expense, while 19 states do not reimburse for risk management costs. To the extent that (a) risk management can be demonstrated as cost/beneficial, and (b) that Medicaid policy influences institutional behavior, states should liberalize Medicaid reimbursement for risk management in long‐term care.