Schnake-Mahl, Alina S O'Leary, Gabriella Mullachery, Pricila H Skinner, Alexandra Kolker, Jennifer Diez Roux, Ana V Raifman, Julia R Bilal, Usama
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Paid sick leave provides workers with paid time off to receive COVID-19 vaccines and to recover from potential vaccine adverse effects. We hypothesized that US cities with paid sick leave would have higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities than those without such policies. Using county-level vaccination data and paid s...
Keith, Katie
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Congress extended enhanced Marketplace subsidies through 2025 and adopted historic Medicare prescription drug reforms.
Festa, Natalia Price, Mary Weiss, Max Moura, Lidia M V R Benson, Nicole M Zafar, Sahar Blacker, Deborah Normand, Sharon-Lise T Newhouse, Joseph P Hsu, John
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In 2020 Medicare reintroduced Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) to risk-adjust Medicare Advantage and accountable care organization (ACO) payments. The potential for Medicare spending increases from this policy change are not well understood because the baseline accuracy of ADRD HCCs is uncert...
Alva, Maria L Chakkalakal, Rosette J Moin, Tannaz Galaviz, Karla I
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To understand the current state of prediabetes burden and treatment in the US, we examined recent trends in prediabetes prevalence, testing, and access to preventive resources. We estimated 13.5 percent prevalence of diagnosed prediabetes in the overall US adult population, using national survey data. Although prediabetes prevalence increased by 4....
Zhu, Jane M Charlesworth, Christina J Polsky, Daniel McConnell, K John
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Understanding the extent to which beneficiaries can "realize" access to reported provider networks is imperative in mental health care, where there are significant unmet needs. We compared listings of providers in network directories against provider networks empirically constructed from administrative claims among members who were ages sixty-four ...
Weinstein, Joshua M Kahkoska, Anna R Berkowitz, Seth A
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Food insecurity is associated with poor clinical outcomes among adults with diabetes, but associations with nonclinical outcomes, such as missed work, have not been well characterized. Our objective was to assess the associations between food insecurity, health-related missed workdays, and overnight hospitalizations. We pooled National Health Inter...
Meiselbach, Mark Katz Drake, Coleman Saloner, Brendan Zhu, Jane M Stein, Bradley D Polsky, Daniel
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Medicaid managed care insurers play a crucial role in facilitating access to buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder. Using a novel set of provider directory and prescription claims data, we examined variation in access to in-network buprenorphine-prescribing primary care providers among Medicaid managed care enrollees. Approximately 32.2 percen...
Feldman, William B Bloomfield, Doni Beall, Reed F Kesselheim, Aaron S
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Inhalers are the mainstay of treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These products face limited generic competition in the US and remain expensive. To better understand the strategies that brand-name inhaler manufacturers have employed to preserve their market dominance, we analyzed all patents and regulatory exclusi...
Bose, Sanuja Dun, Chen Zhang, George Q Walsh, Christi Makary, Martin A Hicks, Caitlin W
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Anticipating a growing need for health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded telemedicine coverage in the United States on March 6, 2020. In this study we used roughly thirty million Medicare fee-for-service claims to quantify outpatient telemedicine use before and after the Medicare telemedicine...
Saloner, Brendan Li, Wenshu Bandara, Sachini N McGinty, Emma E Barry, Colleen L
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Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past decade underscore the need to increase access to treatment among people with substance use disorders (SUDs). We analyzed trends in the use of treatment services among people with SUDs during the period 2010-19, using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Compare...
