Inpatient Documentation of Homelessness After a Medicare Payment Policy Change

Joshua Calianos; Sophie Roe; E John Orav; Jie Zheng; Jose F Figueroa

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.14068

Inpatient Documentation of Homelessness After a Medicare Payment Policy Change

JAMA Netw Open. 2026 May 1;9(5):e2614068. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.14068.

Authors

Joshua Calianos¹, Sophie Roe², E John Orav³, Jie Zheng¹, Jose F Figueroa^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study evaluates whether reclassification of homelessness-related Medicare codes is associated with changes in inpatient documentation of homelessness and other health-related social needs.