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Fostering Flexibility: How Medicare Advantage Potentially Accelerated Telehealth Benefits

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
In 2018, the US Congress enacted a policy permitting Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover telehealth services in a beneficiary’s home and through audio-only means as part of the basic benefit package of services, where prior to the policy change such ...
Lisa M. Grabert MPH, Grace McCormack PhD, Erin Trish PhD, Kathryn L. Wagner PhD   +3 more
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Designing a Mixed Public and Private System for the Health Insurance Market [PDF]

, 2008
Reviews features of a reform proposal offering both public and private plans in a government-run purchasing pool, modeled on Medicare, in the commercial insurance market.
Bryan Dowd
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Primary Care Providers' Perspectives on Telehealth Medicare Annual Wellness Visits for Older Adults in a Midwestern Health System

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Medicare annual wellness visits (AWVs) are vital for older adults' preventive care, which was transitioned to telehealth modalities during COVID‐19. This study examined primary care providers' perceptions of telehealth‐delivered AWVs and explored the factors influencing telehealth implementation using the Practical Robust ...
Vaibhavi Mone, Paul Estabrooks, Jane Potter, Hongmei Wang, Jungyoon Kim   +4 more
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Health Insurance Coverage for Retirees [PDF]

, 2006
[From Summary] Many retirees depend on their former employer for retirement health insurance, either as their sole source of coverage for those under 65 or as a supplement to their Medicare coverage once reaching age 65.
Chaikind, Hinda, Domestic Social Policy Division   +1 more
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Characteristics of the Long‐Term Care Data Cooperative: A New Resource for Research on Outcomes in Long‐Term Care

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The long‐term care (LTC) Data Cooperative is a National Institute on Aging‐funded data resource that links skilled nursing facility (SNF) electronic health record (EHR) data with Medicare and Medicaid claims for use in comparative effectiveness and interventional research.
Stephanie M. Kissam, Terry Hawk, Amy Recker, Catherine Rogers Murray, Dustin Burns, David D. Dore, David R. Gifford, Vincent Mor, Elizabeth M. White   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in the relationship between medication adherence and payer medical costs across three quality measures: results of a cohort study among medicare advantage beneficiaries

BMC Health Services Research
Background There is considerable evidence that medication non-adherence is associated with higher healthcare costs. Payers and providers often target adherence quality measures for intervention, but the impact may depend on the medication.
Sujith Ramachandran, Irene Nsiah, Megha A. Parikh, Patrick J. Campbell, Taruja Karmakar, Heather Black, John P. Bentley   +6 more
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Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? New Answers to an Old Question [PDF]

Previous research has found that Medicare benefits flow primarily to the most economically advantaged groups and that the financial returns to Medicare are consequently higher for the rich than for the poor.
Darius Lakdawalla, Jay Bhattacharya
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Medicare Out-of-Pocket Costs: Can Private Savings Incentives Solve the Problem? [PDF]

, 2008
Projects the potential savings of low-income workers if they could save part of their income, tax-free and at an interest rate equivalent to that of Treasury bonds, to assess whether such incentives could help them pay for post-retirement health ...
Dennis Shea, Eliot Fishman, Suzanne Tamang   +2 more
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Association Between Cholinesterase Inhibitor‐Overactive Bladder Antimuscarinic Prescribing Cascade and Risk of Delirium and Falls Among Individuals Living With Dementia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Prescribing cascades occur when cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI)‐induced urinary incontinence is misinterpreted as a new condition, leading to overactive bladder (OAB) antimuscarinic initiation. We evaluated whether the ChEI‐OAB antimuscarinic prescribing cascade was associated with delirium or falls compared with mirabegron in older
Sarah Beth Tucker, Bryan L. Love, Chijioke M. Okeke, Erin D. Zwick, Chengwen Teng, Jingkai Wei, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Saud Alsahali, Krithika Rajagopalan, Ismaeel Yunusa   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost trends among commercially insured and Medicare Advantage-insured patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: 2006 through 2009

International Journal of COPD, 2011
Anand A Dalal1, Fang Liu2, Aylin A Riedel21US Health Outcomes, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC; 2Health Economics and Outcomes Research, OptumInsight, Eden Prairie, MN, USABackground: Few estimates of health care costs related to ...
Dalal AA, Liu F, Riedel AA
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