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Contribution Of Care Source To Cancer Treatment Cost Variation In The US Military Health System
Seth Seabury and colleagues examined how care received from military treatment facilities or purchased care in civilian facilities contributed to cancer treatment costs for patients.
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Influence of Out-of-Network Payment Standards on Insurer–Provider Bargaining: California’s Experience
California’s experience implementing a policy to address surprise medical billing demonstrates that out-of-network payment standards can influence payer–provider bargaining leverage, affecting prices and network breadth.
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Assessing the Preparedness of the Canadian Health Care System Infrastructure for an Alzheimer’s Treatment
A report on Canadian readiness to deal with new Alzheimer’s disease treatments co-authored by Jakub Hlávka found that average wait times could reach 28 months and that the most pressing issue is a lack of dementia specialists.
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Medicare Beneficiaries, Especially Unsubsidized Minorities, Struggle to Pay for Prescription Drugs: Results from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
This paper examines racial/ethnic disparity in prescription drug cost-coping behaviors in a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
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Education, Decision Making, and Economic Rationality
This paper studies the causal effect of education on decision making. In 1972, England raised its minimum school-leaving age from 15 to 16 for students born after September 1, 1957.
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Economic Evaluation of California Prenatal Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) to Prevent Preterm Birth
There is growing evidence that prenatal participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) reduces the risk of adverse birth outcomes.
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Long-Term Pesticide Use and Risk of Dementia in the Agricultural Health Study of Memory in Aging
Pesticide use has been associated with increased risk of dementia in some, but not all studies; however, little is known about the long-term impact of specific pesticides on dementia risk.
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Impact of Early Initiation of Antihypertensive Medications for Patients with Hypertension or Elevated Blood Pressure
Initiating antihypertensive medications before experiencing a cardiovascular disease-related clinical event was associated with reduced risk of AMI, stroke and death for all hypertensive patients identified in the new guidelines.
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Regression to the Mean in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
Regression to the mean is a known statistical phenomenon. It occurs when an outcome is measured multiple times. Outcomes that are extreme relative to the statistical average, or mean, during the first measurement are more likely to be closer to the mean in subsequent measurement periods simply by chance, because more extreme values have a […]
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Do Cancer Treatments Have Option Value? Real‐ World Evidence From Metastatic Melanoma
The study findings in metastatic melanoma provide the first empirical evidence of the impact of option value in cancer treatment decision making.
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