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Are the 2004 Payment Increases Helping to Stem Medicare Advantage's Benefit Erosion? [PDF]
, 2004 Examines trends in Medicare Advantage plan benefits and premiums in 2004, paying particular attention to the impact of the payment ...
Lori Achman, Marsha Gold
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Economic Record, EarlyView.Humanitarian migrants are among the most vulnerable migrant groups, often facing significant integration challenges, particularly language barriers. In response, many developed countries have introduced language programs to support their settlement. This study uses an event study (staggered difference‐in‐differences) approach and data from Australia's ...
Bowen Wang, Tunye Qiu
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Economic Record, EarlyView.We examine the impact of two changes to Australia's Parenting Payment Single (PPS) program, a welfare payment for low‐income single mothers. One change lowered the age of the youngest child cut off for program eligibility, forcing new welfare entrants onto the less generous Newstart (unemployment) payment.
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
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Medicare Advantage Reforms: Comparing House and Senate Bills [PDF]
, 2009 Compares House and Senate approaches to reforming the Medicare Advantage payment system to reduce costs. Discusses geographic unit of payment, risk adjustments, quality management bonuses, and beneficiary protections and enrollment ...
Brian Biles, Grace Arnold
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Concentration of Physician Services Across Insurers and Effects on Quality: Early Evidence From Medicare Advantage. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundA growing proportion of Medicare beneficiaries is covered by private insurers through Medicare Advantage, yet little is known about how these plans are structured in terms of relationships with physicians and implications for quality of care ...
Bindman, Andrew B +2 more
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EpidemiologiaBackground: Puerto Rico (PR) has experienced significant demographic changes, characterized primarily by an aging population and an unprecedented exodus of medical doctors.
Luma Al-Attar +3 more
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Health Literacy and Plan Choice: Implications for Medicare Managed Care
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2018 Background: Older adults with inadequate health literacy may have difficulty selecting optimal coverage when faced with multiple health insurance plans to choose from.
Robert T. Braun +3 more
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The use of deidentified organ donor testes for research
Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Our knowledge of testis development and function mainly comes from research using mammalian model organisms, primarily the mouse. However, there are integral differences between men and other mammalian species regarding cellular composition and expression profiles during fetal and post‐natal testis development and in the mature testis ...
Marina V. Pryzhkova +4 more
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Cost‐Effectiveness of Ivabradine for Heart Failure in the United States
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016 BackgroundIvabradine is a heart rate–lowering agent approved to reduce the risk of hospitalization for worsening heart failure. This study assessed the cost‐effectiveness of adding ivabradine to background therapy in the United States from the ...
Anuraag R. Kansal +6 more
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Radiotherapy Utilization in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage
JAMA Network OpenImportanceAs more than 50% of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA), understanding whether the treatment covered by MA vs traditional Medicare (TM) is comparable can aid in providing high-value care. As the majority of patients with cancer undergo radiotherapy, it is important to quantify TM and MA utilization in oncology ...
Hogan, Jacob +6 more
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