Medicare beneficiaries
Medication adherence behaviors of Medicare beneficiaries
... ambulatory Medicare population. The 30% of Medicare beneficiaries in our study population who reported not taking medication as prescribed all of the time pro- vided reasons and thus, opportunities ...
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Ending the "Doc Fix": How Repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate Could Give Medicare Beneficiaries Better Access to Primary Care Through Accountable Care Organizations
... Given the perverse incentives that capitation can bring in an effort to save money, the sustainable growth rate reinforces this behavior because low payment rates encourage providers to withhold care to save money. The ...
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Economic burden of hospitalizations of Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure
... The primary end point for this study was the average per-patient cost of HF-related, CV-related, and all-cause hospitalizations over the observation period for Medicare beneficiaries with HF. Secondary end ...
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Differences in hospitalizations, emergency room admissions, and outpatient visits among Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries
... Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries to be hospitalized is an important finding because many hospitals do not have the necessary resources to address language barriers between clinicians and Spanish ...
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Long-term declines in ADLs, IADLs, and mobility among older Medicare beneficiaries
... In this study we prospectively examined the risk of long- term functional declines in older Medicare beneficiaries using data on a nationally representative cohort of older American men and women followed ...
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Leveraging Health Information Technology to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries
... investigation (Benbassat & Taragin, 2000) found that 29 to 47 percent of elderly patients hospitalized for heart failure are readmitted within three to six months of discharge, while 30-day rates have been reported ...
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Impact of the change of copay policy in Medicare Part D on zoster vaccine uptake among Medicare beneficiaries in a managed care organization
... This study has several strengths. To our knowledge, this is the first large population-based study to assess the potential impact of the introduction of Tier-6 in the Medicare Part D benefit on the zoster vaccine ...
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Defining emergency department episodes by severity and intensity: A 15 year study of Medicare beneficiaries
... This study analyzed ED episodes using a large, nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries with data reflecting a variety of individual characteristics linked with Medicare claims for ...
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Use of prostate-specific antigen testing in Medicare beneficiaries
... from Medicare beneficiaries and the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as population-based surveys to examine the use of PSA testing according to patient characteristics, physician fac- tors, geographic ...
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Utilization of health care services among Medicare beneficiaries who visit federally qualified health centers
... of Medicare beneficiaries who visited an FQHC for a majority of their primary care visits in 2013, compared with a sample of beneficiaries who re- ceived regular primary care but did not visit an ...
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Costs and outcomes associated with clopidogrel discontinuation in Medicare beneficiaries with acute coronary syndrome in the coverage gap
... that Medicare beneficiaries who face large out-of-pocket costs for branded medications, such as clopidogrel, due to the coverage gap, may discontinue therapy, leading to increased health resource ...
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Trends in tobacco use and tobacco cessation counselling codes among Medicare beneficiaries, 2001–2014
... for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which provides hospital and medical insurance for ...in Medicare, which includes > 55 million ...of ...
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Disparities in receipt of recommended care among younger versus older medicare beneficiaries: a cohort study
... in health outcomes across different socioeconomic groups [45]. Availability of services, knowledge or physician recommendations of needed care and transportation are often reported factors underlying the geographic dis- ...
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Persistence in health behaviors among Medicare beneficiaries
... among Medicare beneficiaries—hi- gher income, being married and attitudes about seeing a doctor—are similar to those identified in previous research using point-in-time estimates ...
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Healthcare costs and utilization for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's
... about Medicare beneficiaries across the US, age 65 and older, with employer-sponsored supplemental insurance including pharmacy ...under Medicare, and generally long term nursing home care is not ...
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Associations between the 2007 Medicare reimbursement reduction for bone mineral density testing and osteoporosis drug therapy patterns of female Medicare beneficiaries
... female Medicare beneficiary and b) having begun new osteoporosis drug therapy (not restarting drug therapy) during the look-back period with one of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications ...
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“Implications of cost sharing for observation care among Medicare beneficiaries: a pilot survey”
... low-income beneficiaries were more likely to express concern about the cost of their hospital stay and were more likely to consider outpatient work up or leaving AMA if hospitalized under observation status in the ...
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Predictive modeling of health care expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease
... by Medicare [CMS-HCC], and Chronic Illness and Disability Payment System-Medicare version [CDPSM]), functional status ...general Medicare population, this analysis demonstrated that total expenditure ...
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Initiation of antihypertensive monotherapy and incident fractures among Medicare beneficiaries
... cluding beneficiaries with diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and those previously taking loop diuretics suggesting that any residual confounding due to side effects from other chronic conditions or medications is ...
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A 12-year prospective study of stroke risk in older Medicare beneficiaries
... Methods: Baseline (1993–1994) interview data from the nationally representative Survey on Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) were linked to 1993–2005 Medicare claims. Participants were 5,511 ...
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