Research
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Gender and Age of Migration Differences in Mortality Among Older Mexican Americans
Using a gendered life course perspective, we examine whether the relationship between age of migration and mortality is moderated by gender among a cohort of older Mexican Americans.
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Examining Surprise Billing: Protecting Patients from Financial Pain
Christen Linke Young delivered testimony to the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions on April 2, 2019.
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Measuring The Lifetime Costs Of Serious Mental Illness And The Mitigating Effects Of Educational Attainment
Using a dynamic microsimulation model to estimate the lifetime burden of serious mental illness for those diagnosed by age twenty-five, the researchers estimated that the per-patient lifetime burden of SMI is $1.85 million.
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Thirty-Day Postdischarge Mortality Among Black and White Patients 65 Years and Older in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
In this study of patients 65 years and older, short-term postdischarge mortality did not appear to increase for black patients under the HRRP, suggesting that certain value-based payment policies can be implemented without harming black populations. However, mortality seemed to increase for white patients with HF and this situation warrants investigation.
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Association Between Maternal Serious Mental Illness and Adverse Birth Outcomes
The researchers evaluated the contribution of serious mental illness and specific risk factors (comorbidities and substance use) to the risk of adverse birth outcomes.
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Paying Patients To Switch: Impact Of A Rewards Program On Choice Of Providers, Prices, And Utilization
One increasingly popular strategy to encourage patients to switch to lower-price providers is to financially reward patients who receive care from such providers. Neeraj Sood and colleagues evaluated the impact of a rewards program.
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State Approaches to Mitigating Surprise Out-of-Network Billing
Schaeffer Initiative researchers explore why surprise out-of-network billing occurs and how federal and state governments can respond to eliminate these surprise bills and reduce inflated health care costs.
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Testimony on Texas v. U.S.: The Republican Lawsuit and its Impacts on Americans with Pre- Existing Conditions
Christen Linke Young delivered testimony to the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health on February 6, 2019.
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Improving The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Make It Part Of Value-Based Payment
To make greater strides towards value-based payment models in Medicare, Paul Ginsburg recommends that those who are testing alternative payment models at CMS should work directly with the team managing the existing fee-for-service payment system.
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A Transitioning Epidemic: How The Opioid Crisis Is Driving The Rise In Hepatitis C
The OxyContin reformulation led some users of the drug to switch to heroin, which could have exposed them to the hepatitis C virus.