Breslau, Joshua Leckman-Westin, Emily Han, Bing Guarasi, Diana Yu, Hao Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela Pritam, Riti Finnerty, Molly
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Administration and policy in mental health
Providing physical health care in specialty mental health clinics is a promising approach to improving the health status of adults with serious mental illness, but most programs examined in prior studies are not financially sustainable. This study assessed the impact on quality of care of a low-cost program implemented in New York State that allowe...
Doshi, Simit Wish, Jay B
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Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN
Readmissions in patients with nondialysis-dependent CKD and kidney failure are common and are associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and economic consequences. In 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in an attempt to reduce high hospitalization-associated costs. Up t...
Guo, Liqiong Danielson, Melissa Cogan, Lindsay Hines, Leah Armour, Brian
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Journal of attention disorders
Objective: To identify children with ADHD enrolled in New York State (NYS) Medicaid and characterize ADHD-associated costs by treatment category. Method: In 2013, 1.4 million children aged 2 to 17 years were enrolled in NYS Medicaid. Medicaid claims and encounters were used to identify children with ADHD, classify them by type of treatment received...
Gadbois, Emily A Gordon, Sarah H Shield, Renee R Vivier, Patrick M Trivedi, Amal N
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Medical care research and review : MCRR
Medicaid managed care allows Medicaid beneficiaries to receive services through contractual relationships between managed care organizations and state Medicaid offices. Medicaid offices monitor quality of care, and many states encourage or require plans to adopt quality management practices. This research examines quality management in Medicaid man...
Wegermann, Kara Wilder, Julius M. Parish, Alice Niedzwiecki, Donna Gellad, Ziad F. Muir, Andrew J. Patel, Yuval A.
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Background and Aims The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in a rapid expansion of telehealth services in hepatology. However, known racial and socioeconomic disparities in internet access potentially translate into barriers for the use of telehealth, particularly video technology. The specific aim of this study was to determine ...
Ramgobin, Devyani McClafferty, Brendan Kramer, Courtney Golamari, Reshma McGillen, Brian Jain, Rohit
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Background : COVID-19 has altered numerous lives and accounted for significant mortality and morbidity throughout the world and, especially, the USA. During the pandemic, from mid-March to July 2020, around one-fourth of the US population filed for unemployment benefits. Objective : In this article, we discuss the economic ramifications exposed in ...
Hartley, Kathryn A. Guthrie, Kendall D. Stoner, Steven C. May, Justin R. Hartwig, D. Matthew Liu, Yifei
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Pharmacy: Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice
This study reports the process of telephonic medication reviews conducted by community pharmacists for patients with asthma. The study occurred at an independent community chain in association with a Missouri Medicaid consulting group. Participants were identified utilizing claims data and met the National Quality Forum criteria for uncontrolled mo...
Stockbridge, Erica L. Webb, Nathaniel J. Dhakal, Eleena Garg, Manasa Loethen, Abiah D. Miller, Thaddeus L. Nandy, Karabi
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundThere is excess amenable mortality risk and evidence of healthcare quality deficits for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). We sought to identify sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with variations in two 2015 Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures, antipsychotic medication adherence...
Moss, Mark E. Grodner, Andrew Dasanayake, Ananda P. Beasley, Cherry M.
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundDental care utilization for low income pregnant women is met with challenges in the traditional dentist-centered model of care. County-level measures provide insights for policy and roles for stakeholders that extend beyond the dentist-patient relationship. We examined county-level data to generate hypotheses about factors that influence ...
Bilaver, Lucy A Kanaley, Madeleine K Fierstein, Jamie L Gupta, Ruchi S
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Academic pediatrics
The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive epidemiological profile detailing food allergy (FA) prevalence and related correlates among Medicaid-enrolled children. The 2012 Medicaid Analytic eXtract person-level 100% files for 50 states and the District of Columbia were analyzed. The analytic sample of 23,825,160 included all children...
