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Insurance Type and Major Complications After Hysterectomy
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between primary insurance type and major complications after hysterectomy. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on women with Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance who underwent hysterectomy from January 1, 2012, to July 1, 2014, and were included in the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative. Major complications within 30 days of surgery included the following: deep/organ space surgical site infection, deep venous and pulmonary thromboembolism, myocardial infarction or stroke, pneumonia or sepsis, blood transfusion, readmission, and dea...
Source: Journal of Pelvic Medicine and Surgery - December 20, 2016 Category: Surgery Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Does Identification of Previously Undiagnosed Conditions Change Care ‐Seeking Behavior?
ConclusionsIn‐home assessment of cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose can increase doctor visits for individuals with previously undiagnosed conditions. However, biomarker assessment may have more limited impact among individuals with low access to care.
Source: Health Services Research - November 30, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca M. Myerson, Lisandro D. Colantonio, Monika M. Safford, Elbert S. Huang Tags: Research Article Source Type: research

Differences in Use of High-quality and Low-quality Hospitals Among Working-age Individuals by Insurance Type
Background: Research suggests that individuals with Medicaid or no insurance receive fewer evidence-based treatments and have worse outcomes than those with private insurance for a broad range of conditions. These differences may be due to patients’ receiving care in hospitals of different quality. Research Design: We used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases 2009–2010 data to identify patients aged 18–64 years with private insurance, Medicaid, or no insurance who were hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, or gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Mul...
Source: Medical Care - January 16, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Readmissions and Other Measures of Hospital Quality.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest there may be common organizational factors that influence multiple disease-specific outcomes. As pay-for-performance programs focus attention on individual disease outcomes, hospitals may benefit from in-depth assessments of organizational factors affecting multiple aspects of hospital quality. PMID: 28145726 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - January 31, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Rinne ST, Castaneda J, Lindenauer PK, Cleary PD, Paz HL, Gomez JL Tags: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research

2017 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures
This article describes the public health impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including incidence and prevalence, mortality rates, costs of care, and the overall impact on caregivers and society. The Special Report examines how the use of biomarkers may influence the AD diagnostic process and estimates of prevalence and incidence of the disease. An estimated 5.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's dementia. By mid-century, the number of people living with Alzheimer's dementia in the United States is projected to grow to 13.8 million, fueled in large part by the aging baby boom generation. Today, someone in the country develo...
Source: Alzheimer's and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association - March 14, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Abstract 043: Health Insurance and the Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Session Title: Poster Session I
Conclusions: The association of health insurance with CVD incidence varied by insurance group, and private insurance was associated with a lower risk of incident CVD. Further exploration of the features of health insurance coverage that impact CVD incidence may facilitate improvements in the primary prevention of CVD.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - March 31, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Crim, M. T., Xie, J. X., Ko, Y.-A., Blumenthal, R. S., Blaha, M. J., Nasir, K., Budoff, M. J., Shaw, L. J. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session I Source Type: research

MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for April 19, 2017
Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry. Get this in your inbox everyday by subscribing to our newsletters.   5. Intuitive Surgical shares rise on solid Q1 beat Shares in Intuitive Surgical rose today in after-hours trading after the robotic surgical platform maker posted 1st quarter earnings that beat expectations on the Street. The Sunn...
Source: Mass Device - April 19, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news

How The GOP's Health Plan Shifts The Burden To Family Caregivers
There are two words missing in the 100-plus pages of the American Health Care Act, which narrowly passed the House on Thursday without a single Democratic vote: “family caregivers.” It’s a shame, because the trickle-down effects of the bill ― should it pass the Senate ― would swell the ranks of the nation’s 43.5 million unpaid and untrained family members who sacrifice portions of their own lives and livelihoods to spare their loved ones being kicked to the curb. Many aspects of the Obamacare repeal uniquely target older Americans. But there’s one in particular that threatens to ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

IP131. Transfemoral Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting With Embolic Protection: A 7-year Retrospective Analysis of a Single-Center Experience
Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) is an excellent, often superior, alternative to carotid endarterectomy (CEA). When performed by experienced operators, both are equivalent in periprocedural risk and stroke prevention. Widespread adoption of CAS in the United States has been impeded by reimbursement regulations mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that favor CEA over CAS for patients with asymptomatic carotid disease. This policy has led to decreased CAS volumes and an increase in percentages of patients receiving CAS for symptomatic vs asymptomatic disease.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - May 17, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Michael B. Silva, Garold Motes, Zulfiqar Faisal. Cheema, Grant Fankhauser, Nikita Tihonov, Jennifer Worsham, Kaled Diab, Charlie Cheng Tags: IP: Interactive Poster Session Source Type: research

Peripheral Artery Disease Prevalence and Incidence Estimated From Both Outpatient and Inpatient Settings Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study Epidemiology
ConclusionsThis study provides comprehensive estimates of PAD in the inpatient and outpatient settings where the majority of PAD burden was found. PAD is an important circulatory system disorder similar in prevalence to stroke and coronary heart disease.
Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - May 3, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kalbaugh, C. A., Kucharska-Newton, A., Wruck, L., Lund, J. L., Selvin, E., Matsushita, K., Bengtson, L. G. S., Heiss, G., Loehr, L. Tags: Epidemiology, Peripheral Vascular Disease Original Research Source Type: research

MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for June 12, 2017
Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry. Get this in your inbox everyday by subscribing to our newsletters.   5. MassDevice Q&A: Claret Medical’s Azin Parhizgar on trying to make TAVR safer Cerebral protection developer Claret Medical recently won FDA de novo clearance for its Sentinel device designed to trap blood clots and prevent...
Source: Mass Device - June 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news

Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California ’s most needy
A five-year Medicaid waiver program that infused billions of dollars into public hospitals prompted significant improvements in health care to California ’s neediest population — the poor and uninsured, according to an extensiveevaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.Seventeen designated public hospitals participated in the $3.3 billion “pay-for-performance” experiment, including five University of California hospital systems and 12 county‐owned-and‐operated hospital systems. Collectively, these facilities serve more than 2 million patients every year, including most of the state’s Medi-Cal p...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 28, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Representativeness of Medicare Participants in the Jackson Heart Study for African American Medicare Beneficiaries
Conclusion: JHS–Medicare participants had fewer comorbid conditions, better survival, and lower Medicare costs compared with regional and national cohorts. Observed differences may reflect healthy volunteer bias and higher socioeconomic status. See video abstract at, http://links.lww.com/EDE/B235 .
Source: Epidemiology - August 2, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Validation Studies Source Type: research

Early Lessons on Bundled Payment at an Academic Medical Center.
CONCLUSION: Opportunities for savings under bundled payment may be greater for lower extremity joint arthroplasty than for other conditions. PMID: 28837458 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons - August 25, 2017 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Am Acad Orthop Surg Source Type: research

Valve Hemodynamic Deterioration and Cardiovascular Outcomes in TAVR: A Report from the STS/ACC TVT Registry ™
Conclusions The incidence of VHD in U.S. clinical practice is low, and VHD is not associated with increased cardiovascular events at 18months. Patient and procedural predictors may help to identify patients at risk for VHD in whom surveillance or preventive strategies may be considered.
Source: American Heart Journal - September 10, 2017 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research