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Likelihood of Hospital Readmission after First Discharge: Medicare Advantage vs. Fee-for-Service Patients

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2012
This study tests whether the likelihood of hospital readmission within 30 days of discharge is different for enrollees in Medicare Advantage plans versus the standard fee-for-service program.
Bernard Friedman, H. Joanna Jiang, Claudia A. Steiner, John Bott   +3 more
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Health Supervision Visits among SSI-Eligible Children in the D.C. Medicaid Program: A Comparison of Enrollees in Fee-for-Service and Partially Capitated Managed Care

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2008
Managed care plans that involve some form of capitation may have adverse effects on children with special health care needs because the financial incentives to control costs may result in under-treatment and restrict access to expensive services and ...
Jean M. Mitchell, Darrell J. Gaskin, Chahira Kozma   +2 more
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Implementing Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program: An Expressway to Solvency

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022
The Medicare program faces increasing budgetary pressures, with recent estimates suggesting that the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust will be insolvent as soon as 2028.
Rohini Chakravarthy MD, MBA, Gail R. Wilensky PhD, Brian J. Miller MD, MBA, MPH   +2 more
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Performance Modeling and Simulation for Water Distribution Networks

Frontiers in Water, 2021
This study develops an implementation framework for asset management strategic planning of water distribution networks to meet sustainable infrastructure, socio-political, and financial targets over the life cycle of the infrastructure.
Amin Ganjidoost, Mark A. Knight, Andre J. A. Unger, Carl T. Haas   +3 more
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Keratin 19 as a prognostic marker and contributing factor of metastasis and chemoresistance in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Keratin 19 (KRT19) is overexpressed in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer with high levels of Kallikrein‐related peptidases (KLK) 4–7 and is associated with poor survival. In vivo analyses demonstrate that elevated KRT19 increases peritoneal tumour burden.
Sophia Bielesch, Isabel Vogel, Sina Nokodian, Johanna Moeller, Antonia Blechschmidt, Vicky Hecht, Vanessa Kuentzel, Katharina Thiedig, Melissa Schwab, Oliver Schilling, Holger Bronger, Marion Kiechle, Viktor Magdolen, Tobias Dreyer   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Has Medicaid Managed Care Affected Beneficiary Access and Use?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2002
This paper uses data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families to examine the effects of the various forms of mandatory Medicaid managed care on access and use among beneficiaries not receiving Supplemental Security Income or Medicare benefits.
Stephen Zuckerman, Niall Brennan, Alshadye Yemane   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cutaneous Melanoma Drives Metabolic Changes in the Aged Bone Marrow Immune Microenvironment

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, increasingly affects older adults. Our study reveals that melanoma induces changes in iron and lipid levels in the bone marrow, impacting immune cell populations and increasing susceptibility to ferroptosis.
Alexis E. Carey, Murilo Ramos Rocha, Cheyenne Palm, Vania Wang, Denys Balandin, Ethan Black, Kevin Y. Zhang, Fan Huang, Daniel J. Zabransky, Yash Chhabra, Mareike Peters, Gabriel Ghiaur, Ashani Weeraratna   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Economic Implications of a Diagnosis-Related Groups Payment System in Iran’s Health System Transformation Plan

International Journal of Preventive Medicine
Background: The Health System Transformation Plan (HSTP) in Iran aimed to enhance universal health coverage through improved access and reduced out-of-pocket payments. However, rising healthcare expenditures have posed challenges.
Yousef Khadivi, Mohsen Nabi Meibodi, Fatemeh Saghafi, Reza Khadivi   +3 more
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Modeling the Choice Between Risperidone Long-Acting Injectable and Generic Risperidone from the Perspective of a Japanese Hospital

Neurology and Therapy, 2019
Introduction The Japanese government’s current policy is to encourage hospitals to discharge hospital patients with schizophrenia earlier and provide them with community care.
Yusuke Nakamura, Isao Shibata, Jörg Mahlich   +2 more
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Pediatric outpatient utilization by differing Medicaid payment models in the United States

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In the United States (US), Medicaid capitated managed care costs are controlled by optimizing patients’ healthcare utilization. Adults in capitated plans utilize primary care providers (PCP) more than emergency departments (ED), compared to ...
Therese L. Canares, Ari Friedman, Jonathan Rodean, Rebecca R. Burns, Deena Berkowitz, Matt Hall, Elizabeth Alpern, Amanda Montalbano   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source