Author Archives: Geoffrey Hoffman

About Geoffrey Hoffman

Geoffrey J. Hoffman, PhD is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan's School of Nursing. Dr. Hoffman’s health services research focuses on payment systems and patient care experiences. Specifically, his quantitative work examines financial penalty amounts avoided by reducing hospital readmissions, socioeconomic risk-adjustors in payment methodology, predictors and outcomes of older adults falls, and relationships between household dyads, caregiving, and older adult health and healthcare utilization trajectories. He is also conducting qualitative research on transitional care fall prevention efforts for hospitalized patients.

All Falls Are Not Equal

By | June 9, 2016
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All falls are not equal, nor is the financial impact of how Medicare defines fall-related injuries (FRI). In a new Medical Care article published ahead of print, I worked with colleagues at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health to explore whether Medicare expenditures associated with fall-related injuries (FRI) depend on how FRIs are identified in… Read More »