Investigators examined claims from 2012 for a tiny sliver of Medicare drugs - medications to treat HIV, the virus that causes AIDS - and then cross-referenced them with death records. They found that the program paid for drugs for 158 beneficiaries after they were already dead. The cost to t...
Østbye T, Taylor DH, Clipp EC: Identification of dementia: Agreement among national survey data, Medicare claims, and death certificates. Health Serv Res. 2008, 43: 313-326. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Pre-publication history The pre-publication history for this paper can...
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First, we have no means of validating the accuracy of schizophrenia diagnoses in Medicare claims data, although we used a validated case identification algorithm,43 and no means of validating suicide as a cause of death, although suicide in death certificates has been found to have a sensitivity...
This research relied on Medicare billing data and Minimum Data Set assessments to determine the site of death based on the place of service recorded on the submitted claims. Medicare billing data do not differentiate community deaths that are in a personal home, in an assisted living facility, ...
Early death after discharge from emergency departments: analysis of national US insurance claims data. (odds ratio 0.84, 95% confidence interval 0.81 to 0.86) and those with higher charges for visits (0.75, 0.74 to 0.77) had significantly fewer deaths... Ziad,Obermeyer,Brent,... - 《Bmj》 ...
Determining the time of cancer recurrence using claims or electronic medical record data. JCO Clin Cancer Inf. 2018;2:1–10. Google Scholar Haque R, Shi J, Schottinger JE, et al. A hybrid approach to identify subsequent breast cancer using pathology and automated health information data. ...
A more nuanced version of Trump's attack,publishedby his campaign, points to Harris' support for an"earned pathway to citizenship"for immigrants. The Trump campaign claims this could "make millions of low-wage migrants into US citizens" and threaten the survival of the program. ...
The American Hospital Association wants the federal government to launch a series of probes into commercial payers that routinely deny access to care and services. The hospital group wrote to the Department of Justice shortly after the report was released, pressing for False Claims Act investigations...
Results were also similar when we controlled for comorbid conditions, focused on MA plans with high completeness of encounter claims, and compared MA and TM decedents treated in the same hospitals. Discussion In this national comparison of EOL health care utilization in MA vs TM, w...