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Full Coverage for Hypertension Drugs in Rural Communities in ChinaLow-income rural residents receiving hypertension drugs at no charge had enhanced medication adherence and reduced medical costs in China.
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Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Do Doctors and Nurses Buy In?Although clinical knowledge positions physicians and nurses well as consumer-directed health plan enrollees, they appeared less likely to choose these plans than nonmedical faculty and staff.
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Did They Come to the Dance? Insurer Participation in ExchangesThis study analyzes the factors associated with insurer participation in the initial year of individual market exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act.
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Pediatric Integrated Delivery System's Experience With Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1)Experience of a pediatric integrated delivery system with the surge from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic is described, emphasizing scale, scope, and flexibility at multiple locations.
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Simple Errors in Interpretation and Publication Can Be CostlyA recent AJMC study contained overstatements and small but importantly placed errors that have the potential to cause unwarranted on-the-ground cost problems.
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Distinct Health Care Use Patterns of Patients With Chronic Gastrointestinal DiseasesPatients with complex chronic disease can be grouped by varying propensity for health care continuity patterns, which could be harnessed to personalize health care utilization interventions.
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Project ECHO: An Effective Means of Increasing Palliative Care CapacityThis article provides insight on the work of 7 of Project ECHO’s replicating partners from around the world who are implementing the ECHO model to address the knowledge gap that underlies integrated palliative care crisis.
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Comparative Effectiveness and Costs of Insulin Pump Therapy for DiabetesEvaluation of healthcare utilization and costs over 3 years for adults with insulin-requiring diabetes who transition from multiple daily insulin injections to insulin infusion pumps.
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Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO Network Comprehensiveness and Patient Panel StabilityMedicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization (ACO) network comprehensiveness is associated with stable patient assignment year to year. Panel stability was significantly associated with improved diabetes and hypertension control in the short term.
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Budget Impact Analysis of 8 Hormonal Contraceptive OptionsA model assessing 8 hormonal contraceptive methods found that lower pregnancy costs for the etonogestrel implant and levonorgestrel intrauterine device offset their higher acquisition costs.
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The Diagnosis for Diagnostics: Changes to Medicare Payment and Coverage of Clinical Laboratory TestsThe basis for determining Medicare payment rates for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests is changing. These changes will be important for all payers and providers to follow for future reimbursement and contract negotiations.
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Interest in Mental Health Care Among Patients Making eVisitsSome patients using a patient portal for eVisits seek mental health care even when it is not designated for such use.
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A Mid-South Chronic Disease Registry and Practice-Based Research Network to Address DisparitiesThe authors report the experience of one of the first Southern US communities to develop a comprehensive health care data repository for tracking processes and outcomes of care and identifying areas of greatest need.
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Feasibility of Integrating Standardized Patient-Reported Outcomes in Orthopedic CarePatient-reported outcomes, through the use of new technological advances, can be successfully integrated into routine orthopedic practice and shared across distinct institutions.
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TCD Screening and Spending Among Children With Sickle Cell AnemiaA substantial proportion of families of privately insured children with sickle cell anemia pay more than $100 for essential stroke screenings, a high-value service.
