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Projections and Epidemiology of Primary Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Medicare Patients to 2040-2060
JB & JS open access, 2023 Background: National projections of future joint arthroplasties are useful for understanding the changing burden of surgery and related outcomes on the health system. The aim of this study is to update the literature by producing Medicare projections for
I. Shichman +6 more
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Journal of Medical Economics, 2023 Objective To determine the cost of wound care and prevalence of chronic wounds for Medicare beneficiaries in the aggregate, by wound type, and by setting between the years 2014 and 2019.
M. Carter +5 more
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The Geography of Medicare [PDF]
Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 1999 There is a great deal of geographic variation in Medicare spending. For example, while the average Medicare cost per beneficiary was around $5200 in 1996, Medicare spending, adjusted for differences in regional prices and demographic composition, was about $8000 per person in Miami, but only $3500 in Minneapolis. In this paper, we explore the source of
David M. Cutler, Louise Sheiner
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background. The study aimed to determine the individual factors, the health center factors, and the community factors affecting the recurrence of diarrheal diseases among the under-fives admitted at the pediatric ward of Masindi General Hospital ...
Benjamin Evans Muhumuza +1 more
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Introduction: Objectives: To determine the factors associated with the uptake of Safe Male Medical Circumcision among males aged 18-49 years at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.
Gilbert Kabanda, Lydia Anywar
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background: Adherence to antihypertensive medication is a major challenge today, this study was meant to determine the factors associated with adherence to AHM.
MERCY ALIRO, Florence Namutebi
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Definitions, 2020 The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (―BCBSA‖) – representing the 39 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield ―Plans‖ that collectively provide health coverage for more than 99 million members, or one in three Americans – appreciates the opportunity ...
P. Borzi, D. Berwick, Emily S. McMahon
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Medicare modernization and diffusion of endoscopy in FFS medicare [PDF]
Health Economics Review, 2017 Abstract Objective To examine how FFS Medicare utilization of endoscopy procedures for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening changed after implementation of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) in 2006, which provided subsidized drug coverage and expanded the geographic availability of Medicare managed care plans across ...
Mobley, Lee R. +4 more
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Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2009 Results Almost one fifth (19.6%) of the 11,855,702 Medicare beneficiaries who had been discharged from a hospital were rehospitalized within 30 days, and 34.0% were rehospitalized within 90 days; 67.1% of patients who had been discharged with medical ...
E. Rackow
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021 Importance There are racial inequities in health care access and quality in the United States. It is unknown whether such differences for racial and ethnic minority beneficiaries differ between Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare or whether ...
K. Johnston +3 more
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