FIGURE 1.

Cohort selection for older adult New York State (NYS) fee‐for‐service Medicare beneficiaries who had an index NYS skilled nursing facility admission in 2014 and were subsequently discharged home. We exclude Medicare Advantage beneficiaries because their outpatient claims data are not available and hospitalization records are incomplete. Notes: Based on authors’ analysis of the Master Beneficiary Summary File, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File, and the Long‐Term Care Minimum Data Set 3.0 datasets, 2014 [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]