National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
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Effectiveness of Care<br />
Functional Status Preservation and Rehabilitation<br />
Importance<br />
Chapter 2 Functional Status Preservation and Rehabilitation<br />
Demographics<br />
Noninstitutionalized adults needing help of another person with activities of daily<br />
living (ADLs) xxviii (2009) ....................................................................................4.4 million (Adams, et al., 2010)<br />
Noninstitutionalized adults needing help with instrumental activities of daily<br />
living (IADLs) xxix (2009)....................................................................................9.2 million (Adams, et al., 2010)<br />
Nursing home residents needing help with ADLs (2004) ..........................................1.5 million (NCHS, 2004)<br />
Number of Medicare beneficiaries receiving inpatient rehabilitation<br />
facility care (2009) ……………………………………………………………....361,000 (MedPAC, 2011)<br />
Costs<br />
Medicare payments for outpatient physical therapy (2006 est.)..........................................................$3.1 billion<br />
(Ciolek & Hwang, 2008)<br />
Medicare payments for outpatient occupational therapy (2006 est.)................................................$747 million<br />
(Ciolek & Hwang, 2008)<br />
Medicare payments for outpatient speech-language pathology services (2006 est.).......................$270 million<br />
(Ciolek & Hwang, 2008)<br />
Medicare payments for outpatient rehabilitation (2010) ............................................$3.8 billion (CMS, 2010a)<br />
Medicare payments for inpatient rehabilitation facility care (2010)......................$6.4 billion (MedPAC, 2011)<br />
Measures<br />
A person’s ability to function can decline with disease or age, but it is not always an inevitable consequence.<br />
Threats to function span a wide variety of medical conditions. Services to maximize function are delivered in<br />
a variety of settings, including providers’ offices, patients’ homes, long-term care facilities, and hospitals.<br />
Some health care interventions can help prevent diseases that commonly cause declines in functional status.<br />
Other interventions, such as physical activity, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language<br />
pathology services, can help patients regain function that has been lost or minimize the rate of decline in<br />
functioning.<br />
The NHQR and NHDR track several measures related to functional status preservation and rehabilitation.<br />
Two measures are highlighted in this section:<br />
n Improvement in mobility among home health care patients.<br />
n Nursing home residents needing more help with daily activities.<br />
xxviii<br />
ADLs consist of basic self-care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, eating, transferring, using the toilet, and walking.<br />
xxix<br />
IADLs consist of tasks needed for a person to live independently, such as shopping, doing housework, preparing meals, taking<br />
medications, using the telephone, and managing money.<br />
120 <strong>National</strong> <strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> <strong>Disparities</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, 2011