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Medicare Advantage Plan Star Ratings and Bonus Payments in 2012 [PDF]
, 2011 Estimates total Medicare spending on and distribution of quality ratings-based bonus payments for Medicare Advantage plans in 2012 by company, tax status, state and county and in relation to cuts in plan payments under federal health ...
Anthony Damico +3 more
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Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Families of transition‐aged youth with autism often struggle to access services. Due to systemic barriers, Latino, Spanish‐speaking families of autistic youth especially struggle to access services. One way to improve service access is through parent advocacy abilities (i.e., knowledge of adult services, advocacy abilities and comfort ...
Meghan M. Burke +6 more
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Medicare Prescription Drugs: Medical Necessity Meets Fiscal Insanity [PDF]
, 2005 Medicare is facing severe financial strains that threaten its future viability. On a per capita basis, Medicare spending is increasing at twice the rate of the gross domestic product, and, according to Medicare's chief actuary, the program is facing a ...
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Joseph Antos
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Evaluation of Medicare's Bundled Payments Initiative for Medical Conditions
New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 BACKGROUND The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative in 2013. A subsequent study showed that the initiative was associated with reductions in Medicare payments for total ...
Karen E. Joynt Maddox +3 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims This study looks at the status of the same drugs conditionally approved by the Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada for the same oncology indication. Methods Lists of oncology drugs with a conditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada were generated and drug pairs with the same indication were matched ...
Joel Lexchin
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Low-Income Subsidies for the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: The Impact of the Asset Test [PDF]
, 2005 Assesses the impact of the requirement that low-income individuals with Medicare meet an asset test in order to receive additional help paying premiums and cost sharing under the new Medicare drug benefit.
Katherine A. Desmond, Thomas Rice
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The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in Medicare
, 2016 The misuse of prescription opioids has become a serious epidemic in the United States. In response, states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which record a patient's opioid prescribing history.
T. Buchmueller, Colleen M. Carey
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The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2019 As the Medicare program struggles to control expenditures, there is increased focus on opportunities to manage patient populations more efficiently and at a lower cost.
I. Duncan +3 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Abstract Aim The aim of this systematic review was to assess all available clinical data regarding the use of a single dose of basiliximab in solid organ transplantation compared to the standard double dosage, with particular interest in efficacy, safety and cost‐savings.
Alessio Provenzani +4 more
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Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation? [PDF]
The introduction of Medicare in 1965 was the single largest change in health insurance coverage in U.S. history. Many economists and commentators have conjectured that the introduction of Medicare may have also been an important impetus for the ...
Amy Finkelstein +3 more
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