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Disparities in Private Health Insurance Coverage of Skilled Care

Laws, 2017
This article compares and contrasts public and private health insurance coverage of skilled medical rehabilitation, including cognitive rehabilitation, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and skilled nursing services ...
Stacey A. Tovino
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Association between colorectal cancer testing and insurance type: Evidence from the Swiss Health Interview Survey 2012

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2020
Both colonoscopy and fecal occult blood test (FOBT) are commonly used for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, but colonoscopy costs much more than FOBT. Swiss insurance offers high or low deductibles and choice of basic or private insurance.
Alexander Leonhard Braun, Anja Kässner, Lamprini Syrogiannouli, Kevin Selby, Jean-Luc Bulliard, Yonas Martin, Idris Guessous, Kali Tal, Cinzia Del Giovane, Marcel Zwahlen, Reto Auer   +10 more
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Use of a Molecular Signature Response Classifier to Inform Treatment Selection Improves Clinical Disease Activity Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Initiating a Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease‐Modifying Antirheumatic Drug

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We assessed the effectiveness of PrismRA to improve clinical outcomes among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) initiating treatment with a biologic or targeted synthetic disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug (b/tsDMARD). Methods PrismRA incorporated 19 gene expression features and four clinical features to assess a patient's likelihood of
Fenglong Xie, Timothy Beukelman, Nicholas P. McCormick, Jeffrey R. Curtis   +3 more
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Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Australia, 2010–2022: A Population‐Based Study Using Linked National Administrative Health Data

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenous inflammatory condition, with widely varying global prevalence estimates. Frequency of SLE in the general population of Australia has been reported to be notably lower than contemporary estimates in countries such as the US or UK at 19‐39 per 100,000 as opposed to 65‐97 per 100,000.
Lucinda Roper, Rachel Black, Joanna Tieu, Winnie Chen, Matthew Parker, Catherine Hill, Natasha Nassar, Mandana Nikpour   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does the type of health insurance enrollment affect provider choice, utilization and health care expenditures?

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Two of the objectives of Universal Health Coverage are equity in access to health services and protection from financial risks. This paper seeks to examine whether the type of health insurance enrollment affects the utilization of health ...
Esso-Hanam Atake
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High Healthcare Utilization Preceding Diagnosis with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Though early diagnosis improves long‐term outcomes, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) patients often experience prolonged, circuitous paths to diagnosis. To inform diagnostic improvement, we sought to characterize healthcare utilization in the year preceding diagnosis.
Anna Costello, Rui Xiao, Xuemei Zhang, Jahan Jazayeri, Irit R Rasooly, Pamela F Weiss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of trends and determinants of health insurance and healthcare utilisation in the Russian population between 2000 and 2004: the 'inverse care law' in action

BMC Health Services Research, 2009
Background The break-up of the USSR brought considerable disruption to health services in Russia. The uptake of compulsory health insurance rose rapidly after its introduction in 1993.
Balabanova Dina, Perlman Francesca, McKee Martin   +2 more
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Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Background Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to JIA disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship between cumulative social disadvantage, neighborhood disadvantage, and JIA ...
William Daniel Soulsby, John Boscardin, Andrea Knight, Daniel B. Horton, Karine Toupin‐April, Emily von Scheven, The CARRA Registry Investigators and for the CARRA Health Equity Work Group   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Health Insurance Market Reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) [PDF]

, 2012
[Excerpt] The private health insurance provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148, ACA, as amended) include market reforms that impose requirements on private health insurance plans.
Fernandez, Bernadette, Mach, Annie L
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Multimodal Wearable Biosensing Meets Multidomain AI: A Pathway to Decentralized Healthcare

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Multimodal biosensing meets multidomain AI. Wearable biosensors capture complementary biochemical and physiological signals, while cross‐device, population‐aware learning aligns noisy, heterogeneous streams. This Review distills key sensing modalities, fusion and calibration strategies, and privacy‐preserving deployment pathways that transform ...
Chenshu Liu, Haolin Fan, Minwoo Kim, Tong Zhou, Pinyi Yang, Lingdi Zhao, Yiran Wang, Ziyuan Che, Chia‐Wei Liu, Bingbing Li, Yangzhi Zhu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source