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Medicaid's Soaring Cost: Time to Step on the Brakes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Current trends and policies imply unsustainable growth in federal Medicaid outlays. In the year 2006, federal Medicaid spending was 11.9 percent of federal general revenues and 1.5 percent of GDP.
Jagadeesh Gokhale
core   +1 more source

Alternative payment approaches for advancing comprehensive medication management in primary care

open access: yesPharmacy Practice, 2020
The increasing prevalence of complex, chronic conditions has profound implications on the growing demand and cost of health care. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is testing data-driven approaches to care delivery and payment that are ...
Katherine Pham
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing emergency department–initiated buprenorphine

open access: yesJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
Opioids are the main driver of drug overdose deaths in the United States, and there has been a marked increase in opioid‐related overdoses during the COVID‐19 public health emergency.
Kristen Huntley   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utilization of health care services among Medicare beneficiaries who visit federally qualified health centers

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Previous studies have disagreed on whether patients who receive primary care from federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) have different utilization patterns than patients who receive care elsewhere. Our objective was to compare patterns of
Tara A. Lavelle   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medicaid Expansion’s Spillover to the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Six Urban Counties

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
Spillovers from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion to other social-sector outcomes have received little attention. One that may be especially salient for public policy is the impact of expanded eligibility on jail-related outcomes.
Carrie E. Fry   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of hospitalization associated with different constellations of home & community based services

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Identify the association between specific combinations of home and community-based services (HCBS) and risk of acute hospitalization. Methods Data for this study came from Pennsylvania Medicaid claims and Medicare records.
Raymond Van Cleve   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Engine of Change? The Affordable Care Act and the Shifting Politics of Demonstration Projects

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made a number of institutional investments intended to expand the federal government’s ability to scale successful demonstration projects into national policy.
Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly
doaj   +1 more source

The Medical Adviser: Friend or Foe?

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 1988
No abstract available.
R. de Smet
doaj   +1 more source

Influenza vaccination coverage estimates in the fee-for service Medicare beneficiary population 2006 – 2016: Using population-based administrative data to support a geographic based near real-time tool

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Older adults are at great risk of developing serious complications from seasonal influenza. We explore vaccination coverage estimates in the Medicare population through the use of administrative claims data and describe a tool designed to help shape ...
Angela K. Shen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying Patterns of Depression Comorbidities Using Association Rule Learning: Insights from Maryland Medicaid Data [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare Informatics Research
Objectives This study aimed to identify association rules in patients with multiple chronic conditions, with a focus on patterns involving depression, a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder and a significant risk factor for suicide.
Fei Han   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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