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The Limited English Proficient Population: Describing Medicare, Medicaid, and Dual Beneficiaries

open access: yesHealth Equity, 2018
Purpose: The Limited English Proficient (LEP) population experiences well-documented suboptimal health outcomes and substandard provider experiences.
Kimberly Proctor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health insurance in the US: Obama versus Trump [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Social Sciences, 2021
The article elucidates the history of US law, known as Obamacare. Usually you find out that you are eligible for Medicaid when you fill out a health insurance application on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which passes the information to Medicaid. Because
BĂJENESCU, Titu-Marius I.
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

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

Practice‐Level Variation in Outpatient Cardiac Care and Association With Outcomes

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016
BackgroundUtilization of cardiac services varies across regions and hospitals, yet little is known regarding variation in the intensity of outpatient cardiac care across cardiology physician practices or the association with clinical endpoints, an area ...
Jeffrey D. Clough   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dental safety net capacity: An innovative use of existing data to measure dentists’ clinical engagement in state Medicaid programs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background The demand for dentists available for state Medicaid populations has long outpaced the supply of such providers. To help understand the workforce dynamics, this study sought to develop a novel approach to measuring dentists’ relative ...
Marsh, Stacie   +5 more
core   +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

Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
Over the last five years, many states have sought to limit access to Medicaid by adopting restrictive policies. How can we reconcile this development with studies that imply that Medicaid should be insulated from policy backlash?
Richard C. Fording, Dana Patton
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating Pulp Therapy Provided by Medicaid-participating Pediatric and General Dentists in Georgia from 2010-2019

open access: yesJournal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2023
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate reimbursable pulp therapy trends in primary teeth performed by general and pediatric dentists.
Michelle Zin, Beau Meyer, Michael Milano
doaj   +1 more source

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