Research

Insufficient understanding of the completeness of dementia diagnosis and for whom in Medicare claims data limits their use. This study analyzes prevalence and incidence of dementia in survey and claims data to understand differences.

Value-based contracts must incentivize the clinical decision maker, usually the physician, to allocate treatment based on both price and value. Changing certain elements in the financing system could create an environment for successful value-based contracting without having to reform the entire system.

Successful auto-enrollment likely requires changes to the way we determine eligibility for Medicaid and Marketplace financial assistance, to make the system easier to navigate and more generous, writes USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young.

In countries such as Mexico without formal public long-term care policies, informal care becomes the main source of support for older adults.

Although overall rates of unplanned pregnancies have declined, significant racial and geographic disparities persist. At the same time, there are new opportunities to improve access to contraception. This study identifies contributors to the high rate of unplanned pregnancies in a rural farming community in California and assesses interest in pharmacist-prescribed contraception.

Peer-reviewed journals could make a key contribution to improving scientific rigor and real-world healthcare decision-maker acceptability by requiring that VHDM models, source code, and data used in published articles be made freely available to interested readers.

Innovations that extend life can generate option value and cost of experiencing future technologies. Schaeffer postdoc Meng Li developed generalizable approaches to estimating option value in cost-effectiveness analysis.

RCMAR Scientist Reginald Tucker-Seeley presents a model to consistently measure financial hardship to better inform cancer prevention research identify connections between socioeconomic circumstances and cancer risk-related behaviors and cancer screening among older adults.