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Katy Backes Kozhimannil, PhD, MPA

Latest:

High-Deductible Health Plans and Costs and Utilization of Maternity Care

High-deductible benefit design was associated with increased out-of-pocket costs for maternity care, but had no adverse impacts on receipt of recommended prenatal and postpartum care.


Anna P. Nannicelli, MPH, MSW

Latest:

Employer-Led Efforts to Improve the Value of Health Spending

Findings from a systematic review show that employer-led efforts to date have produced few promising strategies for improving the value of health spending.


Jordon Schagrin, MHCI, PCMH CCE

Latest:

Amazing Grace: A Free Clinic's Transformation to the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model

Despite many barriers, Grace Medical Home, a free clinic, achieved patient-centered medical home recognition in October 2014 through a focused team-based approach.




Jennifer Lewey, MD

Latest:

Medication Adherence and Healthcare Disparities: Impact of Statin Co-Payment Reduction

This study examined patterns of medication adherence after a reduction in medication co-payment amount among privately insured patients living in racially diverse neighborhoods.


Nupur Mehta, MD

Latest:

Impact of Complex Care Management on Spending and Utilization for High-Need, High-Cost Medicaid Patients

Complex care management for high-need, high-cost Medicaid patients significantly reduced total medical expenditures and inpatient utilization in a randomized quality improvement trial.


Scott E. Sherman, MD, MPH

Latest:

Care Coordination to Increase Referrals to Smoking Cessation Telephone Counseling: A Demonstration Project

An intervention to increase tobacco treatment rates through care coordination for telephone counseling was effective in raising referral rates and in achieving excellent long-term abstinence.


Siting Zhou, PhD

Latest:

Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Utilization, and Costs of Chronic Opioid Treatment for Non-Cancer Pain in the United States

Healthcare utilization and costs increased in the 6 months after patients started opioid therapy for chronic pain; they then decreased but never reverted to baseline levels.



Baria Hafeez, MS

Latest:

Socioeconomic Disparities in Adoption of Personal Health Records Over Time

Over 4 years, rates of personal health record use increased rapidly across the board, but a digital divide remained evident.


Louis Hochheiser, MD

Latest:

US Insurance Program's Experience With a Multigene Assay for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

This study presents Humana's experience with a multigene breast cancer assay and provides an analysis of the clinical utility and economics of this technology.



Rolin L. Wade, MS

Latest:

Two-Year Adherence and Costs for Biologic Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Adherence to newly initiated biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is important for long-term adherence.






Nicole Wick, AS

Latest:

Changing Demographics Among Populations Prescribed HCV Treatment, 2013-2017

From 2013 to 2017, the population of US patients prescribed treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) changed, becoming predominantly treatment-naïve and having received care in nonacademic centers.




Nancy L. Davis, PhD

Latest:

Physician ePortfolio: The Missing Piece for Linking Performance With Improvement

Clinical data should contribute to practice-based learning and improvement, resulting in improved patient care as well as meeting increasingly rigorous physician accountability requirements.



Anupam Jena, MD, PhD

Latest:

Therapeutic Choice and Outcomes at the Physician Level

Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, presented research on how therapeutic choice and patient outcomes vary at the physician level.


Meei-Shyuan Lee, DPH

Latest:

Dietary Diversity Predicts Type of Medical Expenditure in Elders

Greater dietary diversity is associated with lower emergency and hospitalization utilization and expenditures, and identifies a policy direction for nutritionally disadvantaged groups.






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