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A Pharmacist-Led, Patient-Centered Program Incorporating Motivational Interviewing for Behavior Change to Improve Adherence Rates and Star Ratings in a Medicare Plan. [PDF]
, 2020 INTRODUCTION:The Medicare 5-star quality rating system was designed to drive improvements in Medicare quality and to increase accountability among Medicare plans.
Cutler, Tim +4 more
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Voices in Bioethics, 2021 Photo by Owen Beard on Unsplash Introduction Through its professional associations and healthcare organizations, the medical community has made numerous anti-racism statements in the past year, including the American Medical Association’s (“AMA’s ...
Wendy Dunne DiChristina
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Politics and Policymaking in Medicare Part C [PDF]
Medical Care, 2019 Background: Once just a small part of the Medicare program, private managed care plans now cover over one-third of all Medicare beneficiaries and cost the Federal government ~$210 billion each year. Importantly, the evolution of Medicare managed care policy has been far from linear; for several decades there have been dramatic ...
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Mortality Differences Between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage: A Risk-Adjusted Assessment Using Claims Data. [PDF]
, 2017 Medicare Advantage (MA) has grown rapidly since the Affordable Care Act; nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries now choose MA. An assessment of the comparative value of the 2 options is confounded by an apparent selection bias favoring MA, as ...
Beveridge, Roy A. +7 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020 Background: Despite long standing recommendations of pneumococcal and influenza vaccination for adults age 65 years and older and wide-spread availability to vaccination services, vaccination coverage in the United states is low.
Angela K. Shen +4 more
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The HOSPITAL score as a predictor of 30 day readmission in a retrospective study at a university affiliated community hospital [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Introduction Hospital readmissions are common, expensive, and a key target of the Medicare Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program. Risk assessment tools have been developed to identify patients at high risk of hospital readmission so they can be targeted ...
Robert Robinson
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Voices in Bioethics, 2021 Photo by Anna Hecker on Unsplash ABSTRACT All people deserve the legal ability to outline their care decisions in advance and expect their decisions to govern during a pregnancy. However, until advance directives govern without pregnancy exceptions,
Gianna Strand
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Ridding Ourselves of Noxious “Death Panel” Discourse
Voices in Bioethics, 2014 On Friday, April 11, 2014, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), along with co-sponsors Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), introduced the “Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act" (S.
Lillian Ringel
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Medicare Modernization: The New Prescription Drug Benefit and Redesigned Part B and Part C [PDF]
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2006 The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was enacted in November 2003 and became effective on January 1, 2006. Two major changes occurred. A prescription drug benefit is now available for seniors and younger persons with disabilities who are covered by Medicare.
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Injury Epidemiology, 2019 Background This paper describes a protocol for determining the incidence of serious fall injuries for Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE), a large, multicenter pragmatic clinical trial with limited resources for event ...
David A. Ganz +17 more
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