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Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain: Recommendations to Medicare/Medicaid from the Society for Acupuncture Research

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2019
Editor’s Note: This column takes our series from the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) in a new direction. Recently, the U.S. government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a call for public comment related to the government’s ...
J. Mao, Robert T. Davis, R. Coeytaux, Lee Hullender-Rubin, Jiang-Ti Kong, H. MacPherson, V. Napadow, R. Schnyer, P. Wayne, C. Witt, Richard E. Harris   +10 more
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Geographic and Institutional Patterns of Transoral Robotic Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is increasingly used for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), yet national patterns of TORS availability for Medicare beneficiaries are not well defined. We characterized hospital type, geographic distribution, and market concentration of TORS.
Daniel Gilmore, Lauren R. Michelle, Xiaodan Hu, Stephen Y. Kang, Nolan B. Seim, Catherine T. Haring, Matthew O. Old, Amit Agrawal, Enver Ozer, Lauren E. Miller   +9 more
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Older adult perceptions of a self-reported medication risk questionnaire: A focus group study. [PDF]

INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2011
Background: Medication therapy management (MTM) has been shown to resolve medication-related problems and decrease health care expenses. Public and private health insurers, providers, and other stakeholders are looking for ways to involve patients in the
Matthew J. Witry PharmD, Graduate Student, Elizabeth H. Chang PharmD, MS, Graduate Student, Megan M. Mormann PharmD Candidate, William R. Doucette PhD, Professor, Brand A. Newland PharmD   +4 more
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Exploring the increased prevalence of autism in the fee-for-service Medicare population with open data, 2007 to 2018.

Disability and Health Journal
BACKGROUND The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network continues to report increases in the percentage of U.S. children identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Ethan M. Yoo
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Differences in influenza testing and treatment in micropolitan versus metropolitan areas in the U.S. using medicare claims data from 2010 to 2016

BMC Public Health
Background To improve understanding of influenza and rurality, we investigated differences in influenza testing and anti-viral treatment rates between micropolitan (muSAs) and metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) using national medical claims data over ...
Alexia Couture, F. Scott Dahlgren, Hector S. Izurieta, Richard A. Forshee, Yun Lu, Carrie Reed   +5 more
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A Decomposition of Hospital Profitability

Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2015
Objectives: This paper evaluates the drivers of profitability for a large sample of U.S. hospitals. Following a methodology frequently used by financial analysts, we use a DuPont analysis as a framework to evaluate the quality of earnings. By decomposing
Jason Turner, Kevin Broom, Michael Elliott, Jen-Fu Lee   +3 more
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Cost‐Effectiveness of CT Colonography Under Real‐World Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence for Black and White Populations

Cancer Medicine
Background Given the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' coverage of screening CT colonography (CTC) beginning in January 2025, we evaluated the cost‐effectiveness of CTC for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening by race (Black and White) and gender,
Szu‐Yu Zoe Kao, Maria X. Sanmartin, Judy Yee, Kevin J. Chang, Courtney A. Moreno, Cecelia Brewington, David H. Bruining, Eric W. Christensen, Elizabeth Y. Rula, Pina C. Sanelli   +9 more
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EARLY UPTAKE OF NEW U.S. CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES’ ADVANCE CARE PLANNING PAYMENT [PDF]

Innovation in Aging, 2017
M. Tai-Seale, Y. Yang, E. Dillon, S. Tapper, S. Lai, P. Yu, H. Allore, C.S. Ritchie   +7 more
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Tele‐hospitalist services to support the opening of a new rural hospital

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract As rural hospitals experiencing low patient volume and workforce shortages continue to close nationally, we present an innovative telemedicine care delivery model utilized to support the opening of a new 25‐bed rural hospital in South Carolina in 2023.
Yotam Papo, Jillian Harvey, Dunc Williams Jr., Kit N. Simpson, Jay Hinesley, Allen Abernethy, Dee W. Ford, Marc Heincelman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source