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Diabetes Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Medicare Advantage Versus Traditional Medicare Fee-For-Service Plans: The Diabetes Collaborative Registry. [PDF]

Diabetes Care, 2022
Objective: Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare’s managed care program, is quickly expanding, yet little is known about diabetes care quality delivered under MA compared to traditional Fee-for-Service (FFS) Medicare.
Essien UR, Tang Y, Figueroa JF, Litam TMA, Tang F, Jones PG, Patel R, Wadhera RK, Desai NR, Mehta SN, Kosiborod MN, Vaduganathan M.   +11 more
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Diagnosed prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Medicare Advantage plans

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2020
Introduction One‐third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA). Yet, little is known about MA beneficiaries diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD‐related dementias (AD/ADRD).
Eric Jutkowitz, Julie P.W. Bynum, Susan L. Mitchell, Noelle M. Cocoros, Oren Shapira, Kevin Haynes, Vinit P. Nair, Cheryl N. McMahill‐Walraven, Richard Platt, Ellen P. McCarthy   +9 more
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American Primary Care Physicians’ Decisions to Leave Their Practice

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2012
The status of the primary care workforce is a major health policy concern. It is affected not only by the specialty choices of young physicians but also by decisions of physicians to leave their practices.
Bradford H. Gray, Karen Stockley, Stephen Zuckerman   +2 more
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Primary Care Physicians' Experience with Electronic Medical Records: Barriers to Implementation in a Fee-for-Service Environment

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2009
Our aging population has exacerbated strong and divergent trends between health human resource supply and demand. One way to mitigate future inequities is through the adoption of health information technology (HIT).
D. A. Ludwick, John Doucette
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Quality-Based Payment for Medical Groups and Individual Physicians

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009
This paper measures the extent to which medical groups experience external pay-for-performance incentives based on quality and patient satisfaction and the extent to which these groups pay their primary care and specialist physicians using similar ...
James C. Robinson, Stephen M. Shortell, Diane R. Rittenhouse, Sara Fernandes-Taylor, Robin R. Gillies, Lawrence P. Casalino   +5 more
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Receipt of preventive services among privately insured minorities in managed care versus fee-for-service insurance plans [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2002
We compare preventive services utilization among privately insured African Americans and Hispanics in managed care organizations (MCOs) versus fee-for-service (FFS) plans. We also examine racial/ethnic disparities in the receipt of preventive services among enrollees in FFS or MCO plans.Analysis of the nationally representative 1996 Medical Expenditure
David E, DeLaet, Steven, Shea, Olveen, Carrasquillo   +2 more
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Measures for diffusion of solar PV in selected African countries

International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2017
This paper investigates how African governments are considering supporting and promoting the diffusion of solar PV. This issue is explored by examining so-called ‘technology action plans (TAPs)’, which were main outputs of the Technology Needs Assessment
Ivan Nygaard, Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Gordon Mackenzie, Mathilde Brix Pedersen   +3 more
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Mispricing in the Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Model

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2015
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented hierarchical condition category (HCC) models in 2004 to adjust payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to reflect enrollees’ expected health care costs.
Jing Chen PhD, MBA, Randall P. Ellis PhD, Katherine H. Toro MA, Arlene S. Ash PhD   +3 more
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Quantifying the impact of changing the threshold of New York City heat emergency plan in reducing heat-related illnesses

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
The adverse health impact of high heat is widely documented and can lead to a substantial public health burden. Although heat-related illness in western countries is largely preventable, extreme heat remains the main weather contributor to the burden of ...
Tarik Benmarhnia, Lara Schwarz, Amruta Nori-Sarma, Michelle L Bell   +3 more
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The United States’ Early Experience With Lung Cancer Screening—Creation of a National Data Linkage: A Brief Report

JTO Clinical and Research Reports
Introduction: Lung cancer screening has been recommended by the United States Preventive Services Taskforce since 2013. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services coverage decision in early 2015 required data submission to a Centers for Medicare and ...
V. Paul Doria-Rose, DVM, PhD, Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS, Danielle D. Durham, PhD, Philip Connor, BS, Lenka Goldman, MSE, Lindsey Enewold, PhD, MPH, Farhood Farjah, MD, MPH, Eric A. Miller, PhD, MSPH, Michael Simanowith, MD, Robert A. Smith, PhD, Louise M. Henderson, PhD, MSPH, Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, M.B.B.S., FASCO, Ella A. Kazerooni, MD, MS, Andrew Ward, PhD, MPH, Paul Pinsky, PhD   +14 more
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