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Perils and progress in epilepsy surgery utilization: Twenty‐five years later

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract More than 25 years have passed since the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) established that surgery is superior to continued anti‐seizure medication (ASM) for drug‐resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, and nearly as long since a joint practice parameter urged that appropriate surgical candidates be referred to a specialized center for ...
Dario J. Englot
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Preconception and Prenatal Medicaid Coverage for Medicaid-Insured Births

Journal of Women's Health
Background: Medicaid provides insurance for 40% of U.S. births. Patterns of preconception Medicaid enrollment are not well-described. Methods: Using Medicaid Analytic Extract files, this retrospective cohort study of individuals with a
Gregory, Emily F., Maddox, Adya I., Gibson, Laura A., Passarella, Molly, Roberts, Eric T., Lorch, Scott A.   +5 more
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Why did the SSI-disabled program grow so much? Disentangling the effect of Medicaid [PDF]

The participation rate for working-age adults in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program increased by 37 percent from 1987 to 1993. This paper examines the role of public health insurance provided through Medicaid on the SSI participation decision.
A. S. Yelowitz
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Enhancing quality of mental health service for veterans with seizures

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Psychiatric disorders are commonly identified in people with seizures (PWS). Comorbid mood, anxiety, and trauma‐ and stressor‐related disorders are highly prevalent and not consistently recognized or treated promptly. Veterans with seizures are particularly vulnerable to neuropsychiatric comorbidities, including a higher prevalence of ...
Maria Raquel Lopez, W. Curt LaFrance Jr., Kristen Mordecai, Anna E. Blanken, Mary Jo Pugh, Krista Ocier, Hamada Altalib   +6 more
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The Responsiveness of Private Savings to Medicaid Long Term Care Policies [PDF]

This paper examines the extent to which private savings responds to the availability of a social insurance program. We focus on the Medicaid nursing home assistance program and uses variation in state Medicaid policies in the 1960s and 1990s to identify ...
Lina Walker, Purvi Sevak
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The Fertility Reduction Effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative by Age and Parity

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use restricted‐access birth records from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to document the full age and parity fertility effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI). The CFPI provided access to every FDA approved method of contraception for free to anyone living below approximately 200% of the federal poverty line ...
James Flynn, Amanda Stevenson, Sara Yeatman, Katie Genadek, Jane Menken, Stefanie Mollborn, Leslie Root   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Distortionary Effects of Government Procurement: Evidence from Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing [PDF]

The federal-state Medicaid program insures 43 million people for virtually all of the prescription drugs approved by the FDA. To determine the price that it will pay for a drug treatment, the government uses the average price in the private sector for ...
Mark Duggan, Fiona Scott Morton
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A Discharge Summary Prompt Reduces Postoperative Radiotherapy Delay in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Delays in postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) beyond 6 weeks are associated with worse outcomes in head and neck cancer (HNC). This study evaluated whether a discharge summary prompt could reduce PORT delay. Methods A retrospective review of patients from 2018 to 2023 was used as a pre‐intervention baseline.
Andreja Radevic, Niketna Vivek, Joaquin Austerlitz, Sindhura Sridhar, Whitney Jin, Robert Sinard, Sarah L. Rohde, Kyle Mannion, Alexander J. Langerman, Eben Rosenthal, Michael C. Topf   +10 more
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Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children [PDF]

This paper exploits the discrete nature of the eligibility criteria for two major federal expansions of Medicaid to measure the effects on Medicaid coverage, overall health insurance coverage, and the probability of visiting a doctor.
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard, David Card
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Insomnia, Short Sleep, And Snoring In Mid-To-Late Pregnancy: Disparities Related To Poverty, Race, And Obesity

Nature and Science of Sleep, 2019
David A Kalmbach,1 Philip Cheng,1 Roopina Sangha,2 Louise M O’Brien,3 Leslie M Swanson,4 Laura Palagini,5 Luisa F Bazan,6 Thomas Roth,1 Christopher L Drake1 1Thomas Roth Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Henry Ford Health System, Novi, MI, USA ...
Kalmbach DA, Cheng P, Sangha R, O’Brien LM, Swanson LM, Palagini L, Bazan LF, Roth T, Drake CL   +8 more
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