Heidari, Omeid Meyer, Diane Lowensen, Kelly Patil, Amita O'Conor, Katie J LaRicci, Jessica Hunt, Derrick Bocek, Adam P Cargill, Victoria Farley, Jason E
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Health affairs (Project Hope)
People who inject drugs face many challenges that contribute to poor health outcomes, including drug overdose, HIV, and hepatitis C infections. These conditions require high-quality prevention and treatment services. Syringe services programs are evidence-based harm reduction programs, and they have established track records with people who inject ...
Shashikumar, Sukruth A Chopra, Zoey Buxbaum, Jason D Joynt Maddox, Karen E Ryan, Andrew M
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The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI-A), a voluntary Alternative Payment Model for Medicare, incentivizes hospitals and physician group practices to reduce spending for patient care episodes below preset target prices. The experience of physician groups in BPCI-A is not well understood. We found that physician groups earne...
Gundersen, Craig Ziliak, James P
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Almost fifty million people are food insecure in the United States, which makes food insecurity one of the nation's leading health and nutrition issues. We examine recent research evidence of the health consequences of food insecurity for children, nonsenior adults, and seniors in the United States. For context, we first provide an overview of how ...
Guo, Yan Westmoreland, Drew A D'Angelo, Alexa Mirzayi, Chloe Dearolf, Michelle Carneiro, Pedro B Ray, Meredith Pantalone, David W Carrico, Adam W Patel, Viraj V
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In the US, sexual and gender minority populations are disproportionately affected by HIV. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a key prevention method, but its effectiveness relies on consistent usage. Our four-year national cohort study explored PrEP discontinuation among sexual and gender minority people who initiated PrEP. We found a high annual r...
Andrews, Christina M Westlake, Melissa A Abraham, Amanda J Grogan, Colleen M Harris, Samantha J Jehan, Sadia
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Buprenorphine is among the most effective drugs for treating opioid use disorder, yet only a quarter of Americans who need it receive it. Requiring prior authorization has been identified as an important barrier to buprenorphine access. However, the practice remains widespread in Medicaid-the largest insurer of Americans with opioid use disorder. I...
King, Caroline A Beetham, Tamara Smith, Natashia Englander, Honora Button, Dana Brown, Patrick C M Hadland, Scott E Bagley, Sarah M Wright, Olivia Rae Korthuis, P Todd
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Drug overdose deaths among adolescents are increasing in the United States. Residential treatment facilities are one treatment option for adolescents with substance use disorders, yet little is known about their accessibility or cost. Using the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's treatment locator and search engine advertisi...
Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Cesar Orozco-Rocha, Karina DeGraff, Deborah S Samper-Ternent, Rafael Wong, Rebeca
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Estimates using data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study, a national longitudinal sample of older adults in Mexico, show elevated risk for negative mental health outcomes for those experiencing COVID-19 infection or major COVID-19-related adverse events. Predicted elevated probabilities were greater for a major adverse event than for COVID-19 i...
Black, Bernard Atanasov, Vladimir Glatman-Freedman, Aharona Keinan-Boker, Lital Reichman, Amnon Franchi, Lorenzo Meurer, John Luo, Qian Thaw, David B Moghtaderi, Ali
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Israel was the first country to launch COVID-19 boosters, in late July 2021, with strong public health messaging. The booster campaign reversed rising infection rates from the Delta variant and reduced hospitalizations and deaths. The US booster rollout was slower, and public health messaging was mixed. We used the Israeli experience to ask the cou...
Hockenberry, Jason M Wen, Hefei Druss, Benjamin G Loux, Travis Johnston, Kenton J
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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have become Medicare's dominant care model because policy makers believe that ACOs will improve the quality and efficiency of care for chronic conditions. Depression and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent and undertreated chronic mental health conditions in Medicare. Yet it is unknown whether ACOs influen...
Fitzpatrick, Tiffany Camillo, Cheryl A Hillis, Shelby Habbick, Marin Roerig, Monika Muhajarine, Nazeem Allin, Sara
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Requirements of proof of COVID-19 vaccination were mandated for nonessential businesses and venues by Canada's ten provinces throughout the fall of 2021. Leveraging variations in the timing of these measures across the provinces, we applied event study regression to estimate the impact the announcement of these measures had nationally on age-specif...
