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Organization of Care and Diagnosed Depression Among Women VeteransThis analysis studies effects of practice structures, primary care and mental health integration, and sex-specific primary care services on diagnosis of depression among women veterans.
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Impact of Formulary Restrictions on Medication Intensification in Diabetes TreatmentFormulary restrictions on brand name noninsulin antihyperglycemic drugs have little impact on treatment intensification patterns among low-income patients with diabetes in Medicare Part D.
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Enhancing Patient and Family Engagement Through Meaningful Use Stage 3: Opportunities and Barriers to ImplementationTwo leading US health systems attempted to implement 4 draft objectives for Meaningful Use Stage 3 within their health IT infrastructure to provide feedback on needed enhancements to the policy.
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Study: Health Recovery Solutions Uses Tablets to Reduce Cardiac ReadmissionsPilot program implemented at Hackensack ACO that provides hospitals and ACOs an early warning system to manage their highest risk patients.
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Inpatient Placement: Associations With Mortality, Cost, and Length of StayPlacement of patients in an inpatient hospital setting is associated with lower length of stay and mortality at the expense of higher costs.
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Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With Melinda B. Buntin, PhDTo mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The June issue features a conversation with Melinda B. Buntin, PhD, a health economist and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School.
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Patient Adherence: A Blind Spot in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses?A systematic literature review from 1998 to 2003 showed that few cost-effectiveness analyses of self-administered medications model suboptimal medication adherence.
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A Randomized, Pragmatic, Pharmacist-Led Intervention Reduced Opioids Following Orthopedic SurgeryThis pharmacist-led, patient-directed intervention demonstrated a reduction in opioid dispensings in the 90 days following hip replacement but not knee replacement.
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Visit Duration for Outpatient Physician Office Visits Among Patients With CancerHigher use of performance-based payment mechanisms and capitated arrangements is associated with a decrease in the amount of time physicians spend with patients with cancer.
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Clinical and Economic Outcomes After Introduction of Drug-Eluting StentsIntroduction of drug-eluting stents resulted in improved clinical outcomes for patients and reduced overall procedural costs.
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The Effect of Narrow Network Plans on Out-of-Pocket CostThe 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.
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Consumers to See Star-Ranking System in Healthcare InsuranceStarting in fall 2013, US consumers can expect to see more health insurers utilizing a star-rating system. The new approach in healthcare coverage aims to reflect the quality of insurance plans in relation to costs for policy holders.
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The Development of a Patient-Reported Functional Limitations IndexWe describe an easy-to-interpret, patient-reported Functional Limitations Index that can be used to monitor care of patients along the disability continuum.
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Areas of Addressable Friction for the Adoption of Greater Healthcare Affordability: Insights from US PhysiciansBased on an analysis of Medscape Business of Medicine data, we identify 5 specific areas of friction for the success of payment reform efforts.
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Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Services on Outcomes and Costs for Indigent Patients With DiabetesClinical pharmacy specialists impact patient care through improvements in clinical outcomes for diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia via clinical interventions and promotion of medication adherence.
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Implementation Variation in Natural Experiments of State Health Policy InitiativesThis paper presents a method to characterize policy implementation across states to enable more nuanced impact assessments of federal healthcare delivery system and payment reforms.
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Validating Electronic Cancer Quality Measures at Veterans Health AdministrationEven in a fully integrated healthcare system, only 28% of cancer quality measures could be validated by using electronically available data.
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Building Health IT Capacity to Improve HIV Infection Health OutcomesMassachusetts is integrating HIV surveillance and leveraging electronic health record clinical data into their electronic disease case management system to enhance monitoring the HIV continuum of care.
