Medicare Data
Big Data fraud detection using multiple medicare data sources
... Big Data is not universally agreed upon throughout the literature [20–24], so we use an encompassing definition by Demchenko et ...Big Data by five V’s: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and ...of ...
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The quality of Medicaid and Medicare data obtained from CMS and its contractors: implications for pharmacoepidemiology
... by Medicare) from California, Florida, New York, Ohio, and ...2011 data from these state Medicaid programs (constituting about 38% of nationwide Medicaid enrollment), together with corresponding national ...
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Gout and the risk of Parkinson’s disease in older adults: a study of U.S. Medicare data
... 5% Medicare data from 2006 to 2012 from Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) Chronic Condition Data ...sample Medicare file is a standard Medicare analytic file available from ...
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Development of an algorithm to identify fall-related injuries and costs in Medicare data
... claims data to identify fall- related ...(FFS) Medicare data from CMS and Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan data, which required integrating datasets from different sources with ...
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Gout and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation in older adults: a study of US Medicare data
... these data including over-the-counter medication use are not avail- able in Medicare ...of data on sUA and inflammation markers (C reac- tive protein or others) in Medicare data, which ...
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Allopurinol and the risk of ventricular arrhythmias in the elderly: a study using US Medicare data
... A beneficiary began an allopurinol treatment episode by filling an allopurinol prescription, provided they had not filled an allopurinol prescription in the previous 365 days. Days of exposure were calculated based on ...
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Use Trends and Geographic Variation in Neuroimaging: Nationwide Medicare Data for 1993 and 1998
... Our data show that geographic variation in the rates of use of MR imaging of the brain or head and neck and of the spine was considerable; the high rate–to–low rate ratios were ...
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Differences in hospitalizations, emergency room admissions, and outpatient visits among Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries
... We used Wave 5 for data on participant characteristics so that individuals recruited in 2004/05 could be in- cluded in the analysis. A total of 2069 participants were interviewed at Wave 5 of which 1515 were ...
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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 ...
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Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions in the United States' Medicare population
... new data source from the Office of Research, Develop- ment, and Information at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was used for this ...the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) ...
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Using tablet computers compared to interactive voice response to improve subject recruitment in osteoporosis pragmatic clinical trials: feasibility, satisfaction, and sample size
... data by which to make treatment decisions and there has never been an adequately powered comparator trial with a fracture endpoint providing the basis for this decision making. Thus, very little is known about the ...
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Assembling and validating data from multiple sources to study care for Veterans with bladder cancer
... big data, that is data from multiple sources merged into one comprehensive data ...administrative data as done here and will allows us to develop a more comprehensive understanding of what ...
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End-stage renal disease in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a comparison of dialysis-related utilization and costs with other chronic kidney diseases
... demographic data, dialysis-related utilization, and hospitalization rates was similar between the overall analysis and stratification by payer type, indicating health care resource comparisons can be made using ...
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Aging America
... Kaplan solution is to broaden the Medicare program's coverage of nursing home care, remove the inadequacies and inflexibili- ties of Medicare, pay for nursing-home ca[r] ...
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6227.pdf
... In Study 2, we sought to evaluate associations between the imaging modality used to perform exercise stress testing after PCI (either echocardiography or nuclear imaging) and subsequent outcomes and resource use. We used ...
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Temporal and Geographic variation in the validity and internal consistency of the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Minimum Data Set 2 0
... The transition from MDS version 2.0 to 3.0 is a major change since many of the individual MDS items have been altered in important ways [25]. Most importantly under the new version the residents ’ perspective is sup- ...
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The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey program: Overview, context, and near-term prospects
... Many process and clinical care performance measures existed in the 1990s; however, noticeably lacking were appropriate measures of health outcomes. The Office of the Inspector General (1997), as well as Bailit (1997a, b) ...
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The Demand for Preventive Activities Among Older Adults and its Association With Medicare Expenditures
... and Medicare expenditures in older adults. Using a panel data set from the Health and Retirement study linked to Medicare claims data, I find evidence that while lifestyle prevention such as ...
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Hospital characteristics and patient populations served by physician owned and non physician owned orthopedic specialty hospitals
... First, banning physician investment in specialty hospitals would have the potential to stifle benefits that may result from physician ownership of hospitals. Potential benefits that have been cited include improved ...
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Type 2 diabetes detection and management among insured adults
... claims data, while nationally representative of the privately insured patient popula- tion, might not be representative for some states where United Healthcare and other insurers represented in dNHI have smaller ...
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