Medicare claims
Identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases using Medicare claims
... time using Medicare claims, algorithms with a low posi- tive predictive value may be of little use. This follows from the fact that more subjects identified by the algo- rithm as cases will actually be free ...
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<p>Using Medicare Claims to Identify Acute Clinical Events Following Implantation of Leadless Pacemakers</p>
... administrative claims compared to medical charts and electronic health records, but results are mixed depending on the outcome or condition under evaluation, source of the claims data, and the method of ...
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Disparities in preventive procedures: comparisons of self report and Medicare claims data
... of Medicare claims show significantly larger racial disparities ...on Medicare claims have been linked to racial differences in stage at diagnosis ...
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Gout and dementia in the elderly: a cohort study of Medicare claims
... unlikely. Medicare data does not include body mass index data, which limited our ability to account for the role that obesity may play in this relationship, or whether general versus abdominal obesity differs in ...
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Allopurinol reduces the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) in the elderly: a study of Medicare claims
... confirmed in analyses adjusted for other traditional CAD risk factors including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, dia- betes, and smoking, and in models that additionally ad- justed for aspirin use (by prescription), and ...
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Agreement of reported vascular access on the medical evidence report and on medicare claims at hemodialysis initiation
... for Medicare at the start of renal replacement therapy to compare the vascular access type reported on form CMS-2728 with the type reported on Medicare outpatient dialysis claims for the same ...
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The prevalence and burden of systemic lupus erythematosus in a medicare population: retrospective analysis of medicare claims
... a Medicare population. In 2010, Medicare provided healthcare coverage for approxi- mately ...for Medicare as are disabled people younger than 65 years who receive Social Security Disability Insurance ...
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Trends in and disparities for acute myocardial infarction: an analysis of Medicare claims data from 1992 to 2010
... fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries and should be extended to other populations with ...using Medicare data in the evaluation of AMI and we are unaware of any coding changes that would have directly ...
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Trends in tobacco use and tobacco cessation counselling codes among Medicare beneficiaries, 2001–2014
... counseling claims to investigate the trend in rates of tobacco use and cessation from 2001 to ...counseling claims (99,406, 99,407, G0436, G0437, G0375, G0376) were calculated for each year from 2001 to ...
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Misclassification of incident conditions using claims data: impact of varying the period used to exclude pre-existing disease
... SEER-Medicare, Medicare claims, or other sources of administrative and claims data, we did not include a “true gold standard” with per- fect sensitivity and specificity for ascertaining the ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC4969188.pdf
... to Medicare claims data: New Hampshire Mammography Network, Carolina Mammography Registry, San Francisco Mammography Registry, and Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance ...
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Trends in healthcare utilization among older Americans with colorectal cancer: A retrospective database analysis
... which Medicare claims are linked to SEER registry data as part of a collaborative project between the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...and Medicare data ...
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Disaster impacts on cost and utilization of Medicare
... addresses claims from a single health insur- ance system in the U.S., Medicare, which is primarily utilized by the ...NCHS-CMS Medicare linked data file contains individual-level Medicare ...
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External validation of a claims based algorithm for classifying kidney cancer surgeries
... of claims data for identifying surgical treatments among patients with kidney ...for claims-based assessments of evolving surgical practice ...our Medicare-claims-based algorithm for ...
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Accuracy of the discharge destination field in administrative data for identifying transfer to a long term acute care hospital
... elderly Medicare population, and patients hospitalized in Alaska and Hawaii, which have limited access to LTACs because of their unique ...in Medicare claims since ...
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The validity of administrative data and patterns of chemotherapy use among elderly colorectal cancer patients
... administered any chemotherapeutic agent. The receipt of specific agents was identified in POC through the same mechanism. For the POC studies conducted in 2005, the date of first administration was collected for each ...
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Measurement of skeletal related events in SEER-Medicare: a comparison of claims-based methods
... from claims is not a straightforward task because there is no billing code for ...different claims and is an important finding of this ...in Medicare claims among mPC patients is more likely ...
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The quality of Medicaid and Medicare data obtained from CMS and its contractors: implications for pharmacoepidemiology
... of Medicare coverage ...their Medicare claims from the following research identifiable files (RIFs): Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR―including short stay hospital, long stay ...
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Healthcare spending in the State of Louisiana
... 2014 Medicare claims data. We included all Medicare benefi- ciaries aged 65–99 years old that were enrolled in Medi- care Parts A & B for at least one ...
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Survival in men older than 75 years with low- and intermediate-grade prostate cancer managed with watchful waiting with active surveillance
... SEER- Medicare database that would make it possible to describe the patients’ clinical presentation in greater ...linked Medicare records consist of administrative claims records, this study captures ...
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