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Contributor: How Chronic Care Management Could Be the Great Equalizer for CareBy creating a framework for social determinants of health that explores patients’ needs and prioritizes team members’ response, specialty practices can more effectively strengthen health equity, access to care, and health outcomes.
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Increasing Medicare Annual Wellness Visits in Accountable Care OrganizationsThrough innovations increasing the ease of scheduling and the efficiency of conducting annual wellness visits (AWVs), a large Medicare accountable care organization has been able to increase AWV rates among eligible beneficiaries.
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Concluding Remarks: Impact of Alzheimer Disease, Promising Treatments in Development, and Future OutlookLooking to the future of Alzheimer disease treatment, the panel discusses key takeaways on the evolving therapeutic landscape.
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A Multistakeholder Effort in Pennsylvania to Improve the Accuracy of Reporting Fatal Drug OverdosesThe authors describe a novel training program for death certifiers in Pennsylvania, which has been designed to specifically focus on some of the main challenges in the death certification process and resulted in a useful model that can potentially be adopted by other states or municipalities.
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Long-Term Health Care Costs Following COVID-19: Implications for Pandemic PreparednessA difference-in-differences analysis of health care claims data evaluated excess health care costs in the 12 months following COVID-19 diagnosis among the general and older adult populations.
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The Association of Social Determinants of Health With Health OutcomesThis study explored the statistical association of key social determinants of health with specific health outcomes to validate impact and then created weighted categorical matrices.
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Contributor: Unlocking the Value of Unstructured Data From Continuity of Care Documents Using Medical-Grade NLPClinical-grade, expert-supported natural language processing (NLP) is valuable to payers and providers when exchanging patient information through continuity-of-care documents.
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Regulation of Provider Networks in Response to COVID-19The authors describe federal and state provider network adequacy standards and discuss how regulators should adapt these standards and accompanying monitoring processes in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Limited Clinical Insight Poses Barrier to Optimal NHL Treatment: Andrew Evens, DOClinical approaches to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in younger and older patient groups generally do not differ, according to Andrew Evens, DO, but he emphasized the need for deeper clinical insights into potential biologic differences in younger oncology patients.
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Type 2 Diabetes Patient Activation and mHealth Interventions Decreased Cardiovascular Disease RiskMobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score.
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Partnering With Patient Advocacy Groups to Improve HS Awareness and OutcomesPanelist discusses how patient advocacy groups act as critical bridges between patients, researchers, and health care providers, ultimately improving recognition, treatment, and quality of life for individuals affected by hidradenitis suppurativa.
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Availability of Prices for Shoppable Services on Hospital Internet SitesOnly 60% of hospitals display their cash prices and 5% display their minimum negotiated charges on their public websites; many hospitals are in violation of new federal legislation.
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Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Community OncologyRecommendations to address limitations in more widespread use of reflex testing in community oncology.
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Telehealth User Experiences During COVID-19: A Case Study of Outpatient Cardiovascular Clinics Affiliated With a Large Academic PracticeIn cardiovascular clinics during COVID-19, notable barriers to successful telehealth use included obtaining diagnostic information needed to deliver high-quality care and technology-related challenges for patients.
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Type 2 Diabetes Patient Activation and mHealth Interventions Decreased Cardiovascular Disease RiskMobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score.
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Sex Differences in Medicare Beneficiaries’ Experiences by Low-Income StatusOnly low-income male Medicare beneficiaries had worse patient experience than their female counterparts. The authors discuss opportunities to improve experiences for all patients.
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Insurer Costs of COVID-19 by Disease Severity and DurationPayer costs for COVID-19 ranged from a mean of $505 for asymptomatic cases to $126,094 for severe cases with post–COVID-19 condition.
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Impact of Functional Recovery on Patients Having Heart SurgeryThis article describes the positive impact that actively managing functional recovery has on postacute placement for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.
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Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?This study examines the impact of geographically limited disasters on health care quality performance scores of Medicare Advantage contracts, finding limited impact on performance scores.
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Implementing Clinical Informatics Tools for Primary Care–Based Diabetic Retinopathy ScreeningThe authors describe a primary care–based diabetic retinopathy screening program incorporating telemedicine, strong health information technology engagement, and development of clinical informatics tools.
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Real-World Value of Direct-Acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C at Kaiser Permanente Southern CaliforniaThis analysis demonstrates value and innovation of direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in the US Kaiser Permanente health system.
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Worsening Severity of AD in Children Associated With Increased Comorbidity Onset RiskOf patients in the atopic dermatitis (AD) cohort, 36.6% developed at least 1 comorbidity amid follow-up compared to 28.5% in the non-AD reference cohort.
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Effects of Individualized Nurse-Led Care Plans on Olaparib Treatment DurationA nurse-led personalized care program conducted through a specialty pharmacy prolonged medication persistence among patients with cancer receiving olaparib.
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Geographic Variation in Medicare Home Health ExpendituresThis study attempts to identify the sources of the significant 2.5-fold variation found in home health expenditures, a possible indicator of inefficiency and waste.
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Care Transition Management and Patient Outcomes in Hospitalized Medicare BeneficiariesHospital care transition activity facilitates uptake of Medicare-reimbursed transitional care management, which is associated with lower spending and better patient outcomes.
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Medical Home Visit Programs During COVID-19 State of EmergencyThis report highlights the unique challenges faced by home health programs in addition to discussing how technology and policy changes have helped the elderly homebound during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
