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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Medicare population"”.
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Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Osteoarthritis Treatments among the Medicare Population
… a non-random cross sectional survey to determine Medicare beneficiaries’ preferences and willingness to pay for osteoarthritis (OA) treatments. The population of interest in this study is the Medicare eligible (over age 65) population in Memphis, TN, and surrounding cities. Data were collected at …
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Prostate Specific Antigen Screening in Texas Medicare Population: The Role of Patient Characteristics
… specific antigen (PSA) testing in the Texas Medicare population and 2) assess which patient characteristics are associated with receipt of PSA screening. The 100% Texas Medicare claims data and 2009 population estimates from the Dartmouth Institute were used to examine temporal trends in PSA …
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Upcoding in Medicare Population; Evolving frequencies of comorbidities among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
… of patients’ comorbidities. Settings: 5% Medicare database. Participants: 336,856 COPD hospitalizations over six-year period, 07/01/2009-06/31/2015. Methods: We divided comorbidities into three main categories based on their odds (ORs) of predicting mortality in the year prior to the study …
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Use of various health care providers and the associated clinical and humanistic outcomes in an ambulatory Medicare population
… however, the associated outcomes reported in the Medicare beneficiary population are limited. Objective: To evaluate the utilization of different healthcare providers by Medicare beneficiaries and assess resultant beneficiary outcomes. Methods: Fourteen outreach events targeting Medicare …
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Should Hospitals and Managed Care Organizations Compete for the Health of It
This empirical research uses data from the population of inpatient Medicare hospitalization occurrences in Florida during 1995. Seventeen diagnoses are selected and examined using patient discharge data from this state. Measures of local competition, including Herfindahl indices as measures of …
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The Influence of Regulatory Change on Hospital Medicare Cost Reporting Accuracy
… requirements for hospitals servicing the Medicare population that represents one-third of U.S. hospitals’ payer mix. Prior research has evaluated the influence of regulatory change on hospital financial performance, but not on reporting accuracy. The aim of this research is to address this …
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Five year rehospitalization outcomes in a cohort of acute ischemic stroke patients: medicare linkage study.
… on age, race and sex, to the year 2000 General Medicare Population. Both cohorts were tracked across 5 years of Medicare claims data to identify dates and causes of rehospitalization and death dates. Kaplan-Meier survival curves estimated cumulative incidence rates. Cox regression models were …
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Examination of discharge settings and readmission rates following hospitalization for total knee arthroplasty
… point in minimizing healthcare cost within the Medicare population through several initiatives within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Policy changes have also impacted the availability of post-acute care following TKA. Medicare’s 75% rule effectively limits the number of …
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Population-based outcomes in pancreatic cancer: Improvements in survival, underutilization of surgical resection for early stage disease, and regionalization of care
… cancer. The work defined in this thesis provides population-based data on patients with pancreatic cancer that can be used to improve outcomes and set policy on a national level. \r\n It is unclear if the improvements in survival seen in major centers over the last decade have been translated to …
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Physician behavior and technology diffusion in health care
… and sites for 21 new cancer drugs along with Medicare claims data from 1998-2008, we estimate that patients are 30% more likely to receive treatment with a new drug if they seek care in the hospital referral region where the drug's principal investigator practices. This effect, which is …
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Impact of Nurse Practitioner Practice Regulation on Access to Healthcare Services
… NP practice regulation and access to care in the Medicare population. The design of the study is a secondary data analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Access to Care 2011 dataset. Data for this dataset were collected during the fall 2011 interview session, and represent a …
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CUMULATIVE ANTICHOLINERGIC BURDEN AND ASSOCIATED OUTCOMES AMONG OLDER ADULTS WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
… cohort study design using multi-year (2013-2017) Medicare claims data involving parts A, B, and D. The study sample included community-dwelling older adults (age 65 and older) with a diagnosis of AD initiating any of the ChEIs (donepezil, rivastigmine, or galantamine). The cumulative …
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Super-Utilization: The New Perfect Storm of Health Reform
… attributed to a small sub-set of the inpatient population. For purposes of this research, super-utilization was operationalized as high repeat utilization (HRU) and referred to inpatient utilization and inpatient readmission expenditures attributed to beneficiaries with four or more 30-day …