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Early Performance of Accountable Care Organizations in Medicare.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
BACKGROUND In the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), accountable care organizations (ACOs) have financial incentives to lower spending and improve quality. We used quasi-experimental methods to assess the early performance of MSSP ACOs.
J. McWilliams, Laura A. Hatfield, M. Chernew, B. Landon, A. Schwartz   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Agreement of Administrative Pharmacy Dispensing With Self‐Reported Use of Oral Prednisone in US Veterans With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Administrative claims are used to evaluate oral glucocorticoid use in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), despite limited evidence to support accuracy. We aimed to evaluate the performance of claims‐based algorithms for glucocorticoid use compared to self‐report in an RA population.
Beth I. Wallace, Bryant R. England, Joshua F. Baker, Michael D. George, Brian C. Sauer, Jorge Rojas, Punyasha Roul, Katherine D. Wysham, Hannah Brubeck, Isaac Smith, Liron Caplan, Paul A. Monach, Gail S. Kerr, Gary Kunkel, Tawnie Braaten, Ted R. Mikuls, Grant W. Cannon   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representative Ryan's $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax [PDF]

, 2011
Representative Ryan's proposal to replace the current Medicare system with a system of vouchers or premium supports has been widely described as shifting costs from the government to beneficiaries.
David Rosnick, Dean Baker
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Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation study

PLoS Medicine, 2019
Background Economic incentives through health insurance may promote healthier behaviors. Little is known about health and economic impacts of incentivizing diet, a leading risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), through Medicare and ...
Yujin Lee, D. Mozaffarian, S. Sy, Yue Huang, Junxiu Liu, P. Wilde, S. Abrahams-Gessel, T. Jardim, T. Gaziano, R. Micha   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dental, Vision, And Hearing Services: Access, Spending, And Coverage For Medicare Beneficiaries.

Health Affairs, 2020
Among Medicare beneficiaries, dental, vision, and hearing services could be characterized as high need, high cost, and low use. While Medicare does not cover most of these services, coverage has increased recently as a result of changes in state Medicaid
Amber Willink, N. Reed, B. Swenor, Leah I. Leinbach, Eva H DuGoff, K. Davis   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Where, how, and how much? A multicenter cohort study of the relationship between lupus decision aid modality, place of administration, interruption and viewing completeness and patient‐reported outcomes

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We assessed whether shared decision‐making (SDM), and patient acceptability, feasibility, and overall satisfaction with a computerized patient decision aid (PtDA) for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), differs by PtDA setting, modality, and the viewing experience.
Jasvinder A. Singh, Mark Beasley, Larry R. Hearld, for the Implementing DEcision‐Aid for Lupus in clinics (IDEAL) Consortium   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Health Equity, 2018
Purpose: The Limited English Proficient (LEP) population experiences well-documented suboptimal health outcomes and substandard provider experiences.
Kimberly Proctor, Shondelle M. Wilson-Frederick, Samuel C. Haffer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enriching the American Heart Association COVID‐19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry Through Linkage With External Data Sources: Rationale and Design

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background The AHA Registry (American Heart Association COVID‐19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry) captures detailed information on hospitalized patients with COVID‐19.
Andrew S. Oseran, Tianyu Sun, Rishi K. Wadhera, Issa J. Dahabreh, James A. de Lemos, Sandeep R. Das, Christine Rutan, Aarti H. Asnani, Robert W. Yeh, Dhruv S. Kazi   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transitioning From Medicaid Expansion Programs to Medicare: Making Sure Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries Get Financial Help [PDF]

, 2015
The Affordable Care Act allows states to offer Medicaid coverage to low-income adults who would not have qualified under previous law. This population will face higher cost-sharing requirements when they transition to Medicare, although some may be ...
Jay Dev, Lynda Flowers, Matthew Buettgens   +2 more
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Mandatory Medicare Bundled Payment Program for Lower Extremity Joint Replacement and Discharge to Institutional Postacute Care: Interim Analysis of the First Year of a 5-Year Randomized Trial

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2018
Importance Bundled payments are an increasingly common alternative payment model for Medicare, yet there is limited evidence regarding their effectiveness.
Amy N. Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, Neale Mahoney, J. Skinner   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source