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Mashup Score: 0Which Medicare Beneficiaries Have Trouble Getting Places Like the Doctor's Office, and How Do They Do It? - PubMed - 3 month(s) ago
Which Medicare Beneficiaries Have Trouble Getting Places Like the Doctor’s Office, and How Do They Do It?
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Mashup Score: 5We Need to Talk About Low-Value Care - 6 month(s) ago
Interest in identifying and reducing unnecessary care dates back at least 50 years.1 This interest has waxed and waned periodically since then, surging over the past decade with numerous articles and academic conferences focused on low-value care, health services where potential harms exceed…
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Mashup Score: 5We Need to Talk About Low-Value Care - 6 month(s) ago
Interest in identifying and reducing unnecessary care dates back at least 50 years.1 This interest has waxed and waned periodically since then, surging over the past decade with numerous articles and academic conferences focused on low-value care, health services where potential harms exceed…
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Mashup Score: 1Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems - 6 month(s) ago
This cohort study uses Medicare data to measure and report low-value care use across and within individual health systems and identify system characteristics associated with higher use.
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Mashup Score: 1Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems - 6 month(s) ago
This cohort study uses Medicare data to measure and report low-value care use across and within individual health systems and identify system characteristics associated with higher use.
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Mashup Score: 6Who’s Accountable? Low-Value Care Received By Medicare Beneficiaries Outside Of Their Attributed Health Systems - 9 month(s) ago
Policy makers and payers increasingly hold health systems accountable for spending and quality for their attributed beneficiaries. Low-value care—medical services that offer little or no benefit and have the potential for harm in specific clinical scenarios—received outside of these systems could threaten success on both fronts. Using national Medicare data for fee-for-service beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older and attributed to 595 US health systems, we describe where and from whom they received forty low-value services during 2017–18 and identify factors associated with out-of-system receipt. Forty-three percent of low-value services received by attributed beneficiaries originated from out-of-system clinicians: 38 percent from specialists, 4 percent from primary care physicians, and 1 percent from advanced practice clinicians. Recipients of low-value care were more likely to obtain that care out of system if age 75 or older (versus ages 65–74), male (versus female), non-Hispanic
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Mashup Score: 2JAMA Internal Medicine—Providing Compelling, Credible, Timely, and Essential Evidence - 10 month(s) ago
We live in a time of breathtaking advances in biomedicine. During my lifetime, scientific breakthroughs have made previously fatal or debilitating diseases treatable with revolutionary new drugs or molecularly targeted approaches for AIDS, hepatitis, cancer, and many other conditions across the full…
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Mashup Score: 15
This survey study of Medicare beneficiaries evaluates patient characteristics associated with practices and clinicians offering telephone visits only and patients receiving telephone visits only, when both telephone and video were available.
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New in @JAMANetworkOpen: In nat'l Medicare survey, many older adults were personally offered phone visits, or chose phone visits, even when phone & video visits were available. 🧵on results, implications for Medicare/other payers' reimbursement policies https://t.co/kYsV73CFgy https://t.co/KKR8D8rmIe
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Mashup Score: 1Differences in the Use of Telephone and Video Telemedicine Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic - 1 year(s) ago
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we found lower use of video vs telephone visits among older, Black, Hispanic, and Spanish-speaking patients, driven largely by clinician and practice factors.
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Mashup Score: 14
This cross-sectional study of a multistate sample of electronic health record data examines the association between primary care visit length and potentially inappropriate prescribing.
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First, background. Going to the doctor’s office or hospital can be 🔑 but can also be a burden (⏲️🚗🚌💰 opp costs), esp for older adults and their care partners 👇. Yet we rarely consider patient time and treatment burdens in medical decisions and design. https://t.co/cxtDl10Zme