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Cardiovascular event costs in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
CONCLUSIONS: These results illustrate the potential clinical and economic importance of considering patients' CVD risk and medications' cardiovascular safety profile when treating T2DM patients. PMID: 26189723 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - February 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: J Med Econ Source Type: research

Assessing Providers Antipsychotics Prescription Habits in Long Term Care: A QI Study
Inappropriate use of antipsychotics is associated with increased adverse outcomes of death, heart attack, stroke, falls, and hospitalizations. The national goal established by Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is to reduce the percentage of long-stay nursing home residents who receive antipsychotic medications by 15% per year. Using the CMS quality measure based on Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 shows that at Mayo's teaching nursing home (Samaritan Bethany) 10.2% residents were on antipsychotics in the last quarter of 2012 and 12.1% in the first quarter of 2013.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Sandeep R. Pagali, Sandeep R. Pagali, Brandon P. Verdoorn, Eric G. Tangalos Tags: Poster Abstracts Source Type: research

Health Insurance and Chronic Conditions in Low-Income Urban Whites
This study uses cross-sectional data on 491 low-income urban non-elderly non-Hispanic whites from the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities—Southwest Baltimore (EHDIC-SWB) study to examine the relationship between insurance status and chronic conditions (defined as participant report of ever being told by a doctor they had hypertension, diabetes, stroke, heart attack, anxiety or depression, asthma or emphysema, or cancer). In this sample, 45.8 % were uninsured, 28.3 % were publicly insured, and 25.9 % had private insurance. Insured participants had similar odds of having any chronic condition (odds ra...
Source: Journal of Urban Health - August 1, 2014 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Medicare payments: how much do chronic conditions matter?
Authors: Erdem E, Prada SI, Haffer SC Abstract OBJECTIVE: Analyze differences in Medicare Fee-for-Service utilization (i.e., program payments) by beneficiary characteristics, such as gender, age, and prevalence of chronic conditions. METHODS: Using the 2008 and 2010 Chronic Conditions Public Use Files, we conduct a descriptive analysis of enrollment and program payments by gender, age categories, and eleven chronic conditions. RESULTS: We find that the effect of chronic conditions on Medicare payments is dramatic. Average Medicare payments increase significantly with the number of chronic conditions. Finall...
Source: Medicare and Medicaid Research Review - June 3, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Medicare Medicaid Res Rev 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

Magnet Hospitals and 30-Day Readmission and Mortality Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries
Conclusions: Magnet hospitals performed better on the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Mortality Program than the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. The results of this study suggest the need for The Magnet Recognition Program to examine the role of nurses in postdischarge activities as a component of its evaluation criteria.
Source: Medical Care - December 13, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Heterogeneity of the long-term economic burden of severe sickle cell disease: a 5-year longitudinal analysis
CONCLUSION: Results indicate high clinical need and economic burden among patients with severe presentation of SCD. These findings not only highlight the need for improved therapeutic options to limit or prevent disease progression, but also starts to provide insight on lifetime costs of SCD that will be needed in the evaluation of emerging curative intent therapies.PMID:36222016 | DOI:10.1080/13696998.2022.2133824
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - October 12, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Meghan Gallagher Anjulika Chawla Brenna L Brady Sherif M Badawy Source Type: research

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