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Hospitals might be shifting to more intensive post-acute care to avoid readmissions among seniors with pneumonia. At the same time, penalized hospitals’ efforts to prevent readmissions may be keeping higher proportions of their patients in the community.

In this letter published in JAMA Network Open, Neeraj Sood and Martha Ryan analyze recently enacted prescription drug pricing laws with a transparency component to determine which were informative and disclosed transaction prices.

166 recently enacted prescription drug pricing laws were analyzed to identify those that contained price transparency measures. Of these, 35 bills in 22 states include a transparency component, but only 7 were deemed to be informative.

States are increasingly enacting price transparency laws designed to provide regulators or the public with more information about how entities in the drug distribution system set prices. The data visualization summarizes the 35 drug pricing transparency bills enacted in states between 2015 and 2018.

High and rising launch prices of new cancer drugs have raised American public stakeholder and policy concern. A key policy question is whether the clinical gains offered by these drugs in treating specific cancer indications justify the price increases.

Patients change their behavior and the way they interact with the healthcare system in the face of an economic recession, and findings also suggest primary care providers changed their service intensity as a result of the recession.

Documenting results from a cluster-randomized controlled trial designed to supplement incomes in poor towns among adults 70 or older.

The researchers examined how methods used for identifying dementia in administrative claims affected dementia incidence across racial/ethnic populations using a 100% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.

The burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is rapidly growing. Researchers found vast majority of dementia patients don’t receive specialty diagnosis and care.

A quality improvement bundle, including prophylactic five‐layer dressings, is a cost‐effective approach for pressure injury prevention in all US and Australia long‐term care residents.