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Improving Follow‐Up After Fall Risk Screening: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Primary Care After the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit

open access: yesJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
Proactive Outreach: Closing the Fall Prevention Follow‐Up Gap. A quality improvement initiative at Cedars‐Sinai Health System evaluated follow‐up rates among adults aged ≥ 65 who screened positive for fall risk during Medicare Annual Wellness Visits. Following implementation of a proactive outreach package, including an EHR‐embedded SmartSet and direct
Michelle S. Keller   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agreement Between HEDIS Performance Assessments in the VA and Medicare Advantage: Is Quality in the Eye of the Beholder? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system assess quality of care using standardized Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) performance measures. Little is known, however, about the relative accuracy
Charlton, Mary   +3 more
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Self‐Care Experiences and Support Needs of Community‐Dwelling Older Adults With Multimorbidity: A Qualitative Study Informed by the Caring Life‐Course Theory

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore how community‐dwelling older adults with multimorbidity experience, enact and navigate daily self‐care using the Caring Life‐Course Theory to identify opportunities for strengthening self‐care and self‐management support. Design Qualitative descriptive study.
Michael T. Lawless   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plan Management: Issues for State, Partnership and Federally Facilitated Health Insurance Exchanges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines the state's plan management function of insurance exchanges under federal healthcare reform, including overseeing the licensing and solvency of plans, network adequacy, benefit and rate review, marketing and regulation, quality ...

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Association of Medicare Advantage Enrollment Growth and Changes in Home Health Supply, 2011–2022

open access: yes
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
Jeffrey Marr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Simple Ratings

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study optimal simple rating systems that partition sellers into a finite number of tiers. We show that optimal ratings must be threshold partitions, and that for linear supply and Cournot competition with constant marginal cost, optimal thresholds solve a k‐means clustering problem requiring only the quality distribution.
Hugo Hopenhayn, Maryam Saeedi
wiley   +1 more source

How We Can Pay for Health Care Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Describes savings and revenue sources and policies to reduce healthcare spending that could finance comprehensive reform with a public option, such as reducing physician and hospital payments, investing in prevention programs, and capping tax ...
Aimee Williams   +6 more
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Age at First Dental Visit of Preschool Children Utilizing Public Sector Dental Services in Southeast Queensland, Australia: A Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesJournal of Public Health Dentistry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This retrospective cohort study describes public dental service use among children aged 0–4 years attending public sector oral health services in Metro North and Metro South Hospital and Health Services, Southeast Queensland. This study analyzes age and reason for first dental visits, and whether access pathways, including Lift the ...
Alison Nation   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicare skilled nursing facilities’ occupancy and payer source: The moderating role of financial performance

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine
Objectives: While extensive research has focused on patient outcomes in skilled nursing facilities, a critical gap remains in understanding factors influencing their managerial performance, particularly occupancy rates.
Hyunmin Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medicare Prescription Drug Plans in 2008 and Key Changes Since 2006: Summary of Findings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Synthesizes findings from prior research on the scope and generosity of drug coverage under Medicare Part D, as well as on changes in drug coverage and costs since 2006.
Elizabeth Hargrave   +3 more
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