Research

A new USC study on BinaxNOW rapid antigen tests shows promise for schools, especially if the schools use serial testing, such as twice a week.

Emergency physicians recover a higher share of charges from out-of-network care than from in-network care.

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.

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 7.5 percent for all patient subgroups analyzed.

Adoption of protective behaviors for COVID-19 depends on what disease individuals associated with the novel coronavirus.

Medicare’s experience of paying for outpatient imaging services, particularly expensive advanced imaging such as MRIs, CAT scans, and nuclear scans, has been tumultuous over the last 20 years.

Slightly more than half of those with incomes below 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) were enrolled in nongroup policies that constitute minimum essential coverage.

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.

Older adults with multiple chronic conditions have a higher risk than those without multiple conditions of developing a mental health condition.