The objective of this research was to identify strategies that significantly lower unnecessary inpatient utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic disease.
Morris Weinberger, PhD
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The authors examined the effect of narrow network plan selection on beneficiaries’ outpatient visits and outpatient out-of-pocket expenditures in the 2014 nongroup health insurance market.
Risk Stratification for Return Emergency Department Visits Among High-Risk Patients
ByKatherine E.M. Miller, MSPH,Wei Duan-Porter, MD, PhD,Karen M. Stechuchak, MS,Elizabeth Mahanna, MPH,Cynthia J. Coffman, PhD,Morris Weinberger, PhD,Courtney Harold Van Houtven, PhD,Eugene Z. Oddone, MD, MHSc,Katina Morris, MS,Kenneth E. Schmader, MD,Cristina C. Hendrix, DNS, GNP-BC,Chad Kessler, MD,Susan Nicole Hastings, MD, MHSc
The authors examined 2 high-risk classification methods to compare and contrast the patient populations, and to identify the preferred method for predicting subsequent emergency department visits.
This study examines the frequency of, and risk factors for, unscheduled health service use after an emergency department visit in a national sample of veterans.
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