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Designing Programs for Populations with Chronic Care Needs: A Blanket or a Quilt?Health policy must promote the ability of smaller systems to use sophisticated, rigorous, and less-than-perfect study designs to evaluate the impact of their local programs.
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Patient Assistance: Implementing Preventative Steps to Ensure Financial WellnessAn overview of patient assistance programs at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, including their innovative hospital-based explanation of benefits form, which can eliminate patient responsibilities and help expedite the turnaround times for payment processing with copay assistance.
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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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Factors Influencing Primary Care Providers’ Decisions to Accept New Medicaid Patients Under Michigan’s Medicaid ExpansionIn the era after Medicaid expansion, primary care providers placed importance on practice capacity, specialist availability, and reimbursement when deciding whether to accept new Medicaid patients.
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The Role of Internal Medicine Subspecialists in Patient Care ManagementMost internal medicine subspecialists report the majority of their clinical time is spent in principal care or longitudinal consultative care patient management roles.
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High-Cost, High-Need Patients: The Impact of Reported Penicillin AllergyA reported penicillin allergy was common and was associated with suboptimal antibiotic choices and increased healthcare utilization in high-cost, high-need patients.
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A Comprehensive Hospital-Based Intervention to Reduce Readmissions for Chronically Ill Patients: A Randomized Controlled TrialA hospital-based transitional care program for patients with heart failure or pulmonary disease failed to reduce 30- or 90-day readmissions or emergency department visits.
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Do Economic Evaluations of Targeted Therapy Provide Support for Decision Makers?Economic evaluations of adjuvant trastuzumab were reviewed. Three primary shortcomings were identified including incorporation of local data and estimation and representation (visual) of decision uncertainty.
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Cost-effectiveness of Telephonic Disease Management in Heart FailureThis study shows that telephonic disease management was not cost-effective in a broadly representative sample of community-dwelling patients.
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Understanding and Improving Value Frameworks With Real-World Patient OutcomesNew value frameworks should incorporate real-world evidence that reflects patient treatment behavior, adherence to medication, and equity concerns arising from disparities in care.
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Guidance for Structuring Team-Based Incentives in HealthcareTeam-based performance incentives may improve healthcare team performance, but provider organizations face a number of structural, technical, and cultural barriers to adopting them.
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Impact of Bipolar Disorder in Employed PopulationsThis systematic review examines the impact of bipolar disorder on employee attendance and functioning at work, along with the associated economic burden to US employers.
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Disparities in Antidepressant Adherence in Primary Care: Report From IsraelPatient characteristics such as psychiatric diagnosis were associated with variations in adherence, although physician characteristics were not.
