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Battling the Chargemaster: A Simple Remedy to Balance Billing for Unavoidable Out-of-Network CareThe authors propose a simple legal mechanism to combat chargemaster abuses and encourage provider price competition. This solution is superior to prevailing legislative and regulatory responses to surprise out-of-network bills.
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Evaluation of Collaborative Therapy Review to Improve Care of Heart Failure PatientsWe implemented and evaluated a collaborative therapy review process aimed at optimizing heart failure therapy among patients managed by their primary care providers.
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Improving Laboratory Monitoring of Medications: An Economic Analysis Alongside a Clinical TrialAlthough some interventions may enhance medication safety, an electronic medical record reminder to providers may not be an efficient use of resources.
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Diabetes and Medicare Competitive Bidding: The "Perfect Storm" for Patient HarmA recent Diabetes Care study found flaws in Medicare's competitive bidding program for diabetes test strips. Two of that study's co-authors discuss the findings and why CMS should suspend the bidding program.
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Factors Associated With Lung Cancer Risk Factor DocumentationThis cross-sectional observational study found several factors associated with whether a patient had sufficient lung cancer risk factor documentation in the electronic health record.
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Electronic Health Record Functions Differ Between Best and Worst HospitalsPatterns of electronic health record adoption among highand low-quality hospitals indicated that high-quality institutions had far greater use of most electronic health record functions.
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The Social Value of Childhood Vaccination in the United StatesVaccination of children born in the United States in 2009 will save 1.2 million quality-adjusted life-years, generating $184 billion in social value net of vaccination costs.
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Predicting Nursing Home Placement Among Home- and Community-Based Services Program ParticipantsThe authors developed a model to identify participants in a home- and community-based services program who are at highest risk for long-term nursing home placement.
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US Insurance Program's Experience With a Multigene Assay for Early-Stage Breast CancerThis study presents Humana's experience with a multigene breast cancer assay and provides an analysis of the clinical utility and economics of this technology.
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Payer Effects of Personalized Preventive Care for Patients With DiabetesWe examine the effects of MD–Value in Prevention (MDVIP) enrollment on Medicare expenditures and utilization among fee-for-service beneficiaries with diabetes over a 5-year period.
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Testing of a Tethered Personal Health Record Framework for Early End-of-Life DiscussionsPilot testing demonstrates the use of a novel, personal health record—based framework used in primary care settings may improve presence and quality of advance care planning documentation in the electronic health record.
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Nurse Practitioner Comanagement for Patients in an Academic Geriatric PracticeNurse practitioner comanagment improved quality of care for 5 chronic conditions in an academic geriatrics practice.
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Continuity of Outpatient Care and Avoidable Hospitalization: A Systematic ReviewHigher continuity of care was statistically significant and was associated with fewer ambulatory care–sensitive condition hospitalizations.
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Evaluation of Value-Based Insurance Design With a Large Retail EmployerRetrospective analysis of value-based insurance design (VBID) showed the potential for VBID to improve adherence and reduce utilization and costs with active disease management counseling.
