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Examining the “Medicare Effect” on Distant-Stage Cancer Diagnoses by Site, Gender, and Rurality
Journal of Scientific Innovation in Medicine, 2023 Background: Compared to cancers detected early, distant stage cancers are associated with lower survival, diminished quality of life, and higher costs.
Jason Semprini
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Racial disparities in access to DBS: results of a real-world U.S. claims data analysis
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 IntroductionDeep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective and standard-of-care therapy for Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders when symptoms are inadequately controlled with conventional medications.
Michael Frassica +12 more
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Multiple Inputs Neural Networks for Medicare fraud Detection [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Medicare fraud results in considerable losses for governments and insurance companies and results in higher premiums from clients. Medicare fraud costs around 13 billion euros in Europe and between 21 billion and 71 billion US dollars per year in the United States.
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Site of Death, Place of Care, and Health Care Transitions Among US Medicare Beneficiaries, 2000-2015
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2018 Importance End-of-life care costs are high and decedents often experience poor quality of care. Numerous factors influence changes in site of death, health care transitions, and burdensome patterns of care.
J. Teno +6 more
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The Great Equalizer: Medicare and the Geography of Consumer Financial Strain [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We use a five percent sample of Americans' credit bureau data, combined with a regression discontinuity approach, to estimate the effect of universal health insurance at age 65-when most Americans become eligible for Medicare-at the national, state, and local level.
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JAMA Network Open, 2019 Key Points Question Can machine-learning approaches predict opioid overdose risk among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries? Findings In this prognostic study of the administrative claims data of 560 057 Medicare beneficiaries, the deep neural network ...
W. Lo‐Ciganic +11 more
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Effectiveness of local support for the adoption of a national programme – a descriptive study
Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2014 Background Change management in health care is a complex and time-consuming endeavour, and no less so in implementing technological systems. In deploying a nationwide programme, the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR), the Australian ...
Christopher Pearce +5 more
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The Opium for the Poor Is Opium. Medicare Providers in States with Low Income Prescribe High Levels of Opiates [PDF]
, 2016 The majority of Medicare opioid prescriptions originate with family practice and internal medicine providers. I show that the average number of Medicare opium prescriptions by these providers vary strongly by state and that 54% of the variance is accounted for by the state median household income. I also show that there is a very similar relationship
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Impact of the composition of feature extraction and class sampling in medicare fraud detection [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 With healthcare being critical aspect, health insurance has become an important scheme in minimizing medical expenses. Following this, the healthcare industry has seen a significant increase in fraudulent activities owing to increased insurance, and fraud has become a significant contributor to rising medical care expenses, although its impact can be ...
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Human 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
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