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Back to School: The Effect of School Visits During COVID-19 on COVID-19 Transmission
Researchers find that increases in county-level in-person visits to schools lead to an increase in COVID-19 diagnoses among households with children relative to households without school-age children.
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Advance Care Planning for Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, but Prevalence Remained Low
Researchers examined fee-for-service Medicare claims and found a substantial increase in outpatient advance care planning claims between 2016 and 2019, although prevalence remained below 7.5Â percent for all patient subgroups analyzed.
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Mental Associations with COVID-19 and How They Relate with Self-Reported Protective Behaviors
Adoption of protective behaviors for COVID-19 depends on what disease individuals associated with the novel coronavirus.
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Payment for Dialysis Services in the Individual Market
Monthly spending on outpatient dialysis services for end-stage kidney disease patients was three times higher for patients insured in the individual market compared to patients insured through Medicare.
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Private Insurance and Mental Health Among Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Longitudinal Analysis by Race and Ethnicity
Older adults with multiple chronic conditions have a higher risk than those without multiple conditions of developing a mental health condition.
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The Association of Vertically Integrated Care with Healthcare Use and Outcomes
The researchers examined whether vertically integrated hospital and skilled nursing facility (SNF) care is associated with more efficient use of healthcare and better patient outcomes.
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Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A new study from Schaeffer Center experts finds that immediately after Los Angeles’ safer-at-home declaration, emergency department utilization dropped by 37% compared to the same 9 weeks in the prior two years.
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The Economics of Alternative Payment Models for Pharmaceuticals
Schaeffer Center experts show how specific market inefficiencies create a role for different value-based pricing structures for pharmaceuticals.
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How Sick Is My Cohort of Patients? A General Approach to Identify Chronic Conditions
This presentation discusses a SAS(r) macro that applies Chronic Conditions Warehouse-like rules to any data set either from insurance claims, or electronic health records (EHR) containing a full picture of diagnoses and procedures from patient medical visits.
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The Implications of Changing Education Distributions for Life Expectancy Gradients
Recent research has proposed that shifting education distributions across cohorts are influencing estimates of educational gradients in mortality.
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