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Why Do States Pursue Medicaid Home Care Opportunities? Explaining State Adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Home and Community-Based Services Initiatives

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) included new optional Medicaid home and community-based (HCBS) initiatives: the Balancing Incentive Program, the 1915(k) Community First Choice personal care benefit, and the revised 1915(i) state plan
Lisa Kalimon Beauregard   +1 more
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Potentially Ineffective Care: Time for Earnest Reexamination

open access: yesCritical Care Research and Practice, 2014
The rising costs and suboptimal quality throughout the American health care system continue to invite critical inquiry, and practice in the intensive care unit setting is no exception.
William L. Jackson, Joseph F. Sales
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Can biosimilars help achieve the goals of US health care reform?

open access: yesCancer Management and Research, 2017
Ralph Boccia,1 Ira Jacobs,2 Robert Popovian,3 Gilberto de Lima Lopes Jr4 1Center for Cancers and Blood Disorders, Bethesda, MD, 2Global Medical Affairs, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, 3US Government Relations, Pfizer Inc., Washington, DC, 4Sylvester ...
Boccia R   +3 more
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Health Information Technology and its Effects on Hospital Costs, Outcomes, and Patient Safety

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2011
Underlying many reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) to help contain costs. We use MarketScan® claims data and American Hospital Association information technology (IT) data to ...
William E. Encinosa, Jaeyong Bae
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Patient Navigator Programs, Cancer Disparities, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PDF]

open access: yesThe Oncologist, 2011
Abstract Patients in vulnerable population groups suffer disproportionately from cancer. The elimination of cancer disparities is critically important for lessening the burden of cancer. Patient navigator programs have been shown to improve clinical outcomes.
Beverly, Moy, Bruce A, Chabner
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Expanding the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network to address the management of substance use disorders in general medical settings

open access: yesSubstance Abuse and Rehabilitation, 2014
Betty Tai, Steven Sparenborg, Udi E Ghitza, David Liu Center for the Clinical Trials Network, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) and ...
Tai B, Sparenborg S, Ghitza UE, Liu D
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Locoregional Prostate Cancer Treatment Pattern Variation in Independent Cancer Centers: Policy Effect, Patient Preference, or Physician Incentive?

open access: yesHealth Services Insights, 2015
Surveillance, Epidemiologic, and End Results (SEER) registry data abstracted from a priority 2 or higher reporting source from 2006 to 2008 were used to compare treatment patterns in 45–64-year old men diagnosed with locoregional prostate cancer (LRPC ...
Andrew S. Camarata   +3 more
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The readiness of addiction treatment agencies for health care reform

open access: yesSubstance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) aims to provide affordable health insurance and expanded health care coverage for some 32 million Americans. The PPACA makes provisions for using technology, evidence-based treatments, and integrated,
Molfenter Todd   +3 more
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An Engine of Change? The Affordable Care Act and the Shifting Politics of Demonstration Projects

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made a number of institutional investments intended to expand the federal government’s ability to scale successful demonstration projects into national policy.
Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly
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Implicaciones de la ley de protección al paciente y de acceso a cuidados (PPACA) en los inmigrantes latinos del Estado de Minnesota

open access: yesTendencias, 2012
El presente artículo analiza el impacto de la reforma en el sistema de salud de los Estados Unidos de América, también conocido como el Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), sobre las vidas de los inmigrantes nacidos en Latinoamérica y que ...
Diego Mauricio Díaz Velásquez
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