…with Social Security and Medicare included in the assessment, the federal government’s unfunded liabilities in 2021 are $93.1 trillion, or nearly 400 percent of annual GDP. That compares with $11.1 trillion as calculated in the 2001 Treasury report, which was 105 percent of GDP. …The ...
Health Insurance Carrier Does Matter: Clinically Significant Variation in Weight-related Diagnoses for Medicaid versus Medicare versus Private Insurance versus Self Pay in 83,059 Morbidly Obese Patients: 1581Blair, KendallSlotman, GusOfficial journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG...
Orthotopic heart transplant versus left ventricular assist device: A national comparison of cost and survival Orthotopic heart transplantation is the standard of care for end-stage heart disease. Left ventricular assist device implantation offers an alternative tre... DP Mulloy,CM Bhamidipati,ML Stone...
Baseline Characteristics of Medicare Beneficiaries Dual-Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid (Unweighted) 2014-2017 eFigure 2. Comparison of Trends in Total Medicaid Fee-for-Service Spending in the Year Prior to D-SNP or Other MA Enrollment, Weighted Intent-to-Treat eFigure 3. Ratio Com...
Designed to increase access to and improve the quality of health insurance coverage, the ACA permits states to expand Medicaid coverage to essentially all non–Medicare-eligible people younger than 65 years with incomes at or below 138% of the federal poverty level ($16 643 for an individual...
The authors’ aims were to compare, according to strata, dentists’ participation in Medicaid and Medicaid provider-level caseload measured as the number of patients or visits for preventive or restorative care for 2 comparison years. Methods The data sources were the 2012-2013 Medicaid Analytic eXt...
HOME CARE NURSES CLAIM MEDICARE IGNORES SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH There is significant literature on the importance of addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in order to improve health care outcomes. In response, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded the abili...
A comparison of transferred versus direct admission orthopedic trauma patients. The percentage of transfer patients on Medicaid was 34% and for direct admissions was 37% (p = 0.552). This is a large percentage of indigent care,... W Obremskey,MB Henley - 《Journal of Trauma & Acute Care ...
Differently, our second analysis extends the literature by examining the potential efficiency gains of individual health insurance plans in comparison to Medicaid and Medicare and determining the optimal structure of the individual health insurance contracts, which have not been covered in any of the ...
Karaca Z, Wong HS:Racial disparity in duration of patient visits to the emergency department: teaching versus non-teaching hospitals. West J Emerg Med. 2013, 14:529-41.10.5811/westjem.2013.3.12671 Seurer AC, Vogt HB:Low health literacy: a barrier to effective patient care. S D...