Purpose A relative paucity of literature exists analyzing rural-urban differences in Medicare insurance claims by oral and maxillofacial surgeons (OMSs). The purpose of this study is to compare Medicare utilization, billing practices and reimbursement rates between rural OMSs and their urban counterparts...
As health insurance began to appear to appear in the U.S. – initially in the 1920s and then more widely during World War II and in the postwar era – dentistry wasn't part of the standard package of covered services. As the nation's largest insurer, Medicare plays an important role i...
lung, colorectal, breast, pancreatic, and endometrial cancer cases. An algorithm by Freeman et al. [6] to identify incident breast cancer cases based on Medicare claims had high sensitivity (90%), and also measured the specificity and positive predictive value of their algorithm. McClish and...
At the turn of the century, Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General brought focus and attention to the “profound and consequential oral health disparities within the United States (U.S.) population.”47 This situation is particularly disconcerting in oral health, where many con...