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Temporal trends in and associations with nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug prescription in adult and pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Recent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment guidelines have recommended against NSAID use despite prevalent musculoskeletal symptoms and opioid overuse in this population. Given the discordance between changing national guidelines and potential clinical utility, we sought to assess national temporal trends in prescription NSAID and ...
Adam S. Mayer, Rui Xiao, Andrew Grossman, Meenakshi Bewtra, Michael D. George, Pamela F. Weiss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of a Novel Medication Risk Score with Adverse Drug Events and Other Pertinent Outcomes Among Participants of the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

Pharmacy, 2020
Preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) represent a significant public health challenge for the older adult population, since they are associated with higher medical expenditures and more hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits.
David L. Bankes, Hubert Jin, Stephanie Finnel, Veronique Michaud, Calvin H. Knowlton, Jacques Turgeon, Alan Stein   +6 more
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Utilization Patterns and Outcomes of People With Diabetes and COVID-19: Evidence From United States Medicare Beneficiaries in 2020

Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 2022
ObjectiveDetermine differences in utilization patterns, disease severity, and outcomes between patients with and without diabetes mellitus diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2020Research Design and MethodsWe used an observational cohort comprised of Medicare fee-
Andrea M. Austin, Christopher G. Leggett, Peter Schmidt, Paul Bolin, Eugene C. Nelson, Brant J. Oliver, Brant J. Oliver, Brant J. Oliver, Ashleigh C. King   +8 more
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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

UA Research Summary No. 14 [PDF]

, 2009
In the past few years, Alaskans have been hearing reports that some primary-care doctors won’t see new Medicare patients. Medicare pays these doctors only about two-thirds of what private insurance pays—and that’s after a sizable increase in 2009.
Foster, Mark A., Frazier, Rosyland
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The impact of positive lifestyle behaviors on direct healthcare cost savings for low back pain

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a previously purpose‐developed lifestyle behavior scale and healthcare cost savings related to low back pain (LBP). Methods This longitudinal study utilised data from the AUstralian Twin BACK (AUTBACK) study. LBP and lifestyle behavior measures were collected at baseline.
Ye Tian, Katharine E. Roberts, Michelle Hall, Paula R. Beckenkamp, Angelo Sabag, Karoline Moe, Ana Paula Carvalho‐e‐Silval, Emily J. Callander, Paulo H. Ferreira   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Healthcare resource utilization, costs and treatment associated with myasthenia gravis exacerbations among patients with myasthenia gravis in the USA: a retrospective analysis of claims data

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2023
Aim: There are limited data on the clinical and economic burden of exacerbations in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). We assessed patient clinical characteristics, treatments and healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) associated with MG ...
Julia Pisc, Angela Ting, Michelle Skornicki, Omar Sinno, Edward Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Cognitive Assessment At Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit In Fee-For-Service And Medicare Advantage Plans.

Health Affairs, 2020
The Medicare annual wellness visit-a preventive care visit free to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part B-requires detection of cognitive impairment.
M. Jacobson, Johanna Thunell, Julie Zissimopoulos   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diabetes: It\u27s more than a little sugar [PDF]

, 2010
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Office to Advance Population Health Sponsored by Quality Insights of Pennsylvania: Under contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), protects Medicare patient rights and works collaboratively

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