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Financial Impact of Telehealth: Rural Chief Financial Officer PerspectivesInterviews with chief financial officers of rural hospitals revealed that they perceived telehealth to have some financial advantages; however, they did not believe that telehealth improved their hospitals’ financial situations.
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To Report or Not Report Health Care Data BreachesThis study presents information regarding the decisions that health care privacy officers make about reporting a data breach, including factors that can affect the decision process, such as personal/organizational knowledge, prior breach status, and framed scenarios.
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Choosing Wisely Interventions to Reduce Antibiotic Overuse in the Safety NetThis study evaluates the impact of Choosing Wisely–based interventions on antibiotic prescribing for viral respiratory tract infections in a real-world safety-net setting.
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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Management of Adolescent Behavioral HealthPersonnel costs ($90,514) of a primary care–embedded adolescent behavioral health nurse practitioner over 2 years were 63% of the potential revenue generated ($144,449).
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Social Determinants of Health Score: Does It Help Identify Those at Higher Cardiovascular Risk?Calculating a social score is feasible and it predicts cardiovascular outcomes. In order to do this, institutions have to collect social determinants of health.
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Limited English Proficiency, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Disease, and In-Hospital COVID-19 OutcomesThis study evaluated whether limited English proficiency modifies the association between cardiovascular risk factors or cardiovascular disease and outcomes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
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A Novel Approach to Attribute Responsible Physicians Using Inpatient ClaimsThe authors propose a novel approach in which physicians’ responsibility for inpatient stays is expressed through physician-specific attribution ratios informed by patient characteristics.
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Teamwork Enhances Patient Experience: Linking TEAM and Net Promoter ScoresIn 1386 providers, better teamwork related to higher patient Net Promoter Score (NPS), and the relationship between provider experience and NPS was mediated by teamwork.
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Unmet Needs in the HFmrEF and HFpEF LandscapeJaved Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, discusses the DAPA ECHO trial data presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress 2024, examining the effects of dapagliflozin on myocardial performance in patients with nondiabetic heart failure, including the study’s objective, design, methodology, results, and key clinical implications for the use of dapagliflozin in this population.
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Ambulatory Care Fragmentation and Hospitalization Among Veterans With DiabetesHaving highly fragmented ambulatory care and a usual provider of care outside the Veterans Health Administration increased the odds of hospitalization among veterans with diabetes.
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Have Racial Disparities in Home Dialysis Utilization Changed Over Time?Medicare prospective payment for dialysis modestly increased availability and use of home-based dialysis treatment but did not affect historic racial disparities in home dialysis.
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Interventional Analytics in Skilled Nursing Facilities Associated With Reduced ReadmissionsA retrospective analysis of 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates among skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) between 2017 and 2022 compared those that had implemented an interventional analytics platform and other SNFs.
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Characterizing Obesity in a Large Health Care Delivery System.The prevalence of obesity in the Sutter Health system between 2015 and 2020 was 35%. Differences by race/ethnicity, health insurance, smoking status, and comorbidities were examined.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Health Literacy in US Southern StatesCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is not associated with health literacy. Personal perception of threat was associated with reduced vaccine hesitancy.
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Enhancing the e-Consult: Empowering Efficient and Collaborative CareThis editorial provides suggestions for improving the process of e-consults, which are a promising method of expanding access to specialty care.
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Predicting Drug-Drug and Drug-Gene Interactions in a Community Pharmacy PopulationThe probability of drug interactions increases when genetic polymorphisms are considered, indicating that pharmacogenetic assessment may be useful in predicting the presence and severity of interactions.
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Patient Assignment and Quality Performance: A Misaligned SystemThis article explores the congruence between payer patient assignment and quality performance and the implications for incentive payments in alternative payment models.
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Trends in Medicare Part D Coverage of Generics With Equivalent Brand-Name DrugsHigh-tier generic drug placement in Medicare Part D has increased over time, but it may be related to a drug’s clinical profile and availability of substitutes rather than preferred brand-name drug coverage.
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Spending Patterns Among Commercially Insured Individuals During the COVID-19 PandemicIn this analysis of more than 97 million commercially insured individuals, investigators found that the COVID-19 pandemic induced a spending shock in 2020 and that health care spending did not recover to baseline until mid-2021.
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What Value Do Teaching Hospitals Provide Commercial Beneficiaries When in an ACO?Accountable care organizations (ACOs) with a major teaching hospital were associated with lower mortality, lower inpatient spending, lower emergency department utilization, and higher overall outpatient spending.
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Removing Medicare’s Outpatient Ban and Medicare and Private Surgical TrendsThis article documents a 100% increase in privately insured outpatient knee replacement surgeries following Medicare’s decision to remove knee replacements from its Inpatient Only list.
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Considerations to Increase Rates of Breast Cancer Screening Across PopulationsAuthors from the Community Oncology Alliance and Avalere Health present data that show breast cancer screening rates recovered more slowly among some racial/ethnic groups following on the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Primary Care Visit Cadence and Hospital Admissions in High-Risk PatientsPatients with congestive heart failure and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who had more quarterly primary care visits had lower rates of hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Contributor: Providers and Patients Push Back, Payers Push Forward—Co-pay Mitigation ProgramsResearch shows how commercial health plans impact payer trends in the co-pay landscape and provides key areas that pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers can explore to ensure patient access.
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Clinical Profile of COVID-19 Infection in Postvaccination IndividualsThis article describes the findings of an observational study carried out in India to examine the clinical profile of individuals detected to be COVID-19 positive post vaccination.
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TCD Screening and Spending Among Children With Sickle Cell AnemiaA substantial proportion of families of privately insured children with sickle cell anemia pay more than $100 for essential stroke screenings, a high-value service.
