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Kimberly Ann Brown, MD

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Hepatitis C Care Cascade Among Persons Born 1945-1965: 3 Medical Centers

In this analysis of patients with newly diagnosed hepatitis C, linkage to care was largely successful in the 1945-1965 birth cohort, but treatment initiation remained low. Check out our website’s new table/figure pop-up feature! Click on the name of a table or figure in the text to see it in your browser.



Richard G. Frank, PhD

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Slowing Medicare Spending Growth: Reaching for Common Ground

Recognizing shared features of 2 Medicare payment reform strategies, premium support and global payment, may help us focus on, and resolve, the differences.


Stacey Kowal, MS

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Cost-effectiveness of Intensification With SGLT2 Inhibitors for Type 2 Diabetes

Adding a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dominated switching to a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist over the lifetimes of patients with type 2 diabetes not at glycated hemoglobin A1c target after treatment with metformin plus a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor.


Gary Y. Leung, PhD

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Behavioral Health Disorders and Adherence to Measures of Diabetes Care Quality

Persons with substance use disorders were less likely and persons with schizophrenia/paranoia were more likely to be adherent to measures of diabetes care quality.



John H. Greist, MD

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Voice Response System to Measure Healthcare Costs:A STAR*D Report

Moderate underreporting biases were found when patient responses to an interactive voice response system were compared with medical records in the STAR*D clinical trial.



Xiaoqing Fu, MS

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High-Cost, High-Need Patients: The Impact of Reported Penicillin Allergy

A reported penicillin allergy was common and was associated with suboptimal antibiotic choices and increased healthcare utilization in high-cost, high-need patients.






Anastasis G. Skroumpelos, MSc

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Abolishing Coinsurance for Oral Antihyperglycemic Agents: Effects on Social Insurance Budgets

A coinsurance rate decrease can result in increased adherence to oral antihyperglycemic agents and improved clinical outcomes and cost savings for the healthcare system.


Constance M. Weisner, DrPH, MSW

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Prescription Opioid Registry Protocol in an Integrated Health System

A flexible population-based prescription opioid registry was established for addressing a broad range of critical public health questions relating to prescription opioid use.


Darrell L. Hudson, PhD, MPH

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Mental Health and Diabetes Control Among Vulnerable Primary Care Patients

Only 19% of patients in this sample had good diabetes control based on their tested glycated hemoglobin levels. Patients diagnosed with mental health conditions in this study were more likely to have good diabetes control.


Riad Dirani, PhD

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Medicaid Prior Authorization Policies and Imprisonment Among Patients With Schizophrenia

This study examined the impact of prior authorization formularies on the likelihood that patients with schizophrenia will be arrested and incarcerated.




Carl Schmid, MBA

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Future of PrEP

Experts in HIV provide closing thoughts on the future of PrEP, including improvement of uptake and addressing access disparities.




Deepak Palakshappa, MD, MSHP

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Advancing the Learning Health System by Incorporating Social Determinants

Without integrating data on the social determinants of health, the learning health system could fail to reach its mission of higher-quality, safer, and more efficient care.


Deanne Wiley, BA

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Improvements in Access and Care Through the Affordable Care Act

Affordable Care Act exchange enrollees in California and Colorado reported significant improvements in access to care and fewer barriers to receiving care due to costs.


Gail L. Nunlee-Bland, MD

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Previously Unrecognized Trends in Diabetes Consumption Clusters in Medicare

Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes who are at the lowest levels of healthcare consumption often become some of the highest level consumers in subsequent years.



Amber Willink, PhD

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Integrated Care Organizations: Medicare Financing for Care at Home

This paper presents a policy proposal to integrate care for Medicare beneficiaries through creation of integrated care organizations and a Medicare home care benefit.



Arlene S. Ash, PhD

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Calibrating Medicaid Payment to Need for Long-term Services and Supports

Incorporating data from functional status assessments, we developed a Medicaid payment model for long-term services and supports in a community-dwelling population of older adults.

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