Identifying Observation Stays in Medicare Data: Policy Implications of a Definitiondoi:10.12788/JHM.3038Ann M SheehyFangfang ShiAmy J H KindJ Hosp Med
It will be interesting to see how many Republicans fit that definition. P.S. I’m not a never-Trumper or anti-Trumper. For instance, I praised his tax policy and said nice things about his record on regulation. But I’m loyal to ideas, not to people, so I don’t hesitate to criti...
Recent trial-level meta-analyses have established disease-free survival (DFS) as a valid surrogate for overall survival (OS) in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2−) breast cancer (BC), irrespective of disease stage, and in early-stage hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2...
Study Population Our primary unit of observation was the SNF episode. Following the CMS definition of SNF benefit period and its rules for SNF care reimbursement before the PHE, we grouped adjacent SNF stays into a single episode if a subsequent Medicare-covered SNF stay started within 60 days ...
Correspondingly, the data included an observation for every pairing of a beneficiary and each plan in their county-defined choice set; the outcome was a binary indicator of enrollment (1, the plan chosen; 0, all others in the choice set). Plan Ratings. Our models incorporated both the ...
Post-PCI bleeding was defined according to the CathPCI Registry bleeding definition and consisted of: 1) suspected bleeding with transfusion; 2) a decrease in hemoglobin of >3.0 g/dl; or 3) a procedural intervention to correct the bleeding event. Vascular complications collected by the CathPCI ...
1Section 3708 of the CARES Act (H.R. 748) expanded the definition to include a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist working in accordance with state law, or a physician assistant under the supervision of a physician.
Risk-reduction payments comprised 28% of the total model payments. Findings were largely robust to sensitivity tests around outcome definition, regression specification, and population composition (eTables 4-7 in Supplement 2). For example, high- and medium-risk beneficiaries attributed to the ...
This definition excluded observation stays and emergency department visits. The CMS planned this initiative in 2007 as a population-based improvement pilot, and the only metrics of rehospitalization then in use tabulated rehospitalizations within a variety of postdischarge periods as a percentage of ...
dispensing of naloxone hydrochloride, or enrollment in lock-in programs, can be expensive to payers and burdensome to patients. The determination of who is at high risk is a factor in the size and scope of these interventions and the resources expended. Yet, the definition of high risk is ...