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Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH

Latest:

Opportunities to Improve the Value of Outpatient Surgical Care

Outpatient surgeries in the United States account for roughly 7% of annual healthcare expenditures. To exploit substantial opportunities to improve the value of outpatient surgical care, the authors composed an evidence-based care delivery composite for national discussion and pilot testing.


Patti L. Ephraim, MPH

Latest:

Association of Care Management Intensity With Healthcare Utilization in an All-Condition Care Management Program

Higher intensity of care management in an all-condition program addressing care coordination and care barriers was associated with increased healthcare utilization among Medicaid and Medicare patients.


Laura Mandel, BA

Latest:

Clinician Considerations When Selecting High-Risk Patients for Care Management

Clinicians consider a number of patient predisposing and enabling characteristics not typically available in clinical data systems when selecting high-risk patients for care management.


Vincent X. Liu, MD, MS

Latest:

Health Equity in the Era of Large Language Models

This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM development, implementation, and maintenance.


Amy R. Schwartz, MD

Latest:

Pilot of Decision Support to Individualize Colorectal Cancer Screening Recommendations

Colorectal cancer screening involves balancing immediate harms with longer-term benefits; electronic medical record decision support may facilitate personalized benefit/harm assessment.



William P. Keenan, BA

Latest:

Measuring the Cost Implications of the Collaborative Accountable Care Initiative in Texas

A private accountable care organization model with an embedded care coordinator and a list of recommended providers yields cost savings similar to initiatives with risk-based contracts.










Elaine Kingwell, PhD

Latest:

Hospital Admissions and MS: Temporal Trends and Patient Characteristics

An examination of hospitalization patterns in patients with multiple sclerosis with a focus on the association with time and patient characteristics.


Vassiliki Tsiantou, MSc

Latest:

Abolishing Coinsurance for Oral Antihyperglycemic Agents: Effects on Social Insurance Budgets

A coinsurance rate decrease can result in increased adherence to oral antihyperglycemic agents and improved clinical outcomes and cost savings for the healthcare system.


Karishma Oza, MPH

Latest:

Email-Based Care Transitions to Improve Patient Outcomes and Provider Work Experience in a Safety-Net Health System

A pilot of email-based care transitions between hospital and primary care teams improved patient attendance at follow-up visits, provider satisfaction, and work efficiency.


Bisakha Sen, PhD

Latest:

The Relationship Between Preventive Dental Care and Overall Medical Expenditures

Using an instrumental variable approach, this study is the first to present causal estimates of the effect of preventive dental visits on overall medical expenditures.


Lindsey R. Sangaralingham, MPH

Latest:

Enhanced Risk Prediction Model for Emergency Department Use and Hospitalizations in Patients in a Primary Care Medical Home

An enhanced risk model incorporating medication use, prior healthcare utilization, and mental health with comorbid health conditions predicts healthcare utilization better than health conditions alone.


Stephen McMurray, MD

Latest:

A Payer–Provider Partnership for Integrated Care of Patients Receiving Dialysis

A report on the clinical and economic outcomes of a new payer–provider partnership serving patients with end-stage renal disease.


Lucio N. Gordan, MD

Latest:

Recent Study on Site of Care Has Severe Limitations

The outpatient community oncology setting is consistently less costly for cancer treatment as opposed to the outpatient hospital setting.







Askar Chukmaitov, MD, PhD

Latest:

Outcomes for Hospitals Participating in More- and Less-Mature ACOs

As accountable care organizations’ (ACOs) maturity increased, hospitals participating in CMS ACOs were making progress toward enhanced performance but required more time to improve cost and quality outcomes.


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