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776 to 788 of 788 Research Studies DisplayedLevit KR, Friedman B, Wong HS
AHRQ Author: Friedman B, Wong HS
Estimating inpatient hospital prices from state administrative data and hospital financial reports.
The researchers developed a tool for estimating hospital-specific inpatient prices for major payers. They found that hospital prices can be reasonably estimated for 10 geographically diverse states. They further found that estimated prices compare well with Medicare, MarketScan private insurance, and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey prices for major payers, given limitations of each dataset.
AHRQ-authored; AHRQ-funded.
Citation: Levit KR, Friedman B, Wong HS .
Estimating inpatient hospital prices from state administrative data and hospital financial reports.
Health Serv Res 2013 Oct;48(5):1779-97. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12065.
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Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Hospitalization, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Huckfeldt PJ, Sood NB, Romley JA
Medicare payment reform and provider entry and exit in the post-acute care market.
The researchers examined the impact of Medicare payment reform on the entry and exit of post-acute providers (home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities). They found that payment reforms reducing average and marginal payments reduced entries and increased exits from the market, with entries more likely to be affected.
AHRQ-funded; HS018541
Citation: Huckfeldt PJ, Sood NB, Romley JA .
Medicare payment reform and provider entry and exit in the post-acute care market.
Health Serv Res. 2013 Oct;48(5):1557-80. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12059..
Keywords: Medicare, Critical Care, Healthcare Costs, Home Healthcare, Long-Term Care
Liss DT, Fishman PA, Rutter CM
Outcomes among chronically ill adults in a medical home prototype.
The researchers compared quality, utilization, and cost outcomes for patients with selected chronic illnesses at a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) prototype site with outcomes for patients with the same chronic illnesses at 19 nonintervention control sites. They concluded that a clinic-level population-based PCMH redesign can decrease downstream utilization and reduce total healthcare costs in a subpopulation of patients with common chronic illnesses.
AHRQ-funded; HS019129.
Citation: Liss DT, Fishman PA, Rutter CM .
Outcomes among chronically ill adults in a medical home prototype.
Am J Manag Care 2013 Oct;19(10):e348-58.
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Keywords: Chronic Conditions, Healthcare Costs, Quality of Care, Patient-Centered Healthcare, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Sheppard KD, Brown CJ, Hearld KR
Symptom burden predicts nursing home admissions among older adults.
Using a sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries in Alabama who were contacted by telephone every 6 months during an eight and a half-year study, researchers found that symptom burden is an independent risk factor for NH admission. The study suggests that symptom assessment and management may reduce NH utilization.
AHRQ-funded; HS013852
Citation: Sheppard KD, Brown CJ, Hearld KR .
Symptom burden predicts nursing home admissions among older adults.
J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013 Oct;46(4):591-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.10...
Keywords: Medicare, Long-Term Care, Elderly, Nursing Homes, Healthcare Costs
O'Donnell BE, Schneider KM, Brooks JM
Standardizing Medicare payment information to support examining geographic variation in costs.
This paper describes a method for standardizing claim payments, and demonstrates the difference in actual versus standardized payments by geographic region. It found that without standardization of payments, certain areas of the country are mischaracterized as either high or low healthcare resource-consuming areas.
AHRQ-funded; HS019574; HS019440.
Citation: O'Donnell BE, Schneider KM, Brooks JM .
Standardizing Medicare payment information to support examining geographic variation in costs.
Medicare Medicaid Res Rev 2013 Sep 10;3(3). doi: 10.5600/mmrr.003.03.a06..
Keywords: Medicare, Healthcare Costs, Hospitalization, Hospitals
Abasaeed R, Kranz AM, Rozier RG
The impact of the Great Recession on untreated dental caries among kindergarten students in North Carolina.
This study to determine the impact of the Great Recession on untreated dental caries in kindergarten-aged children in North Carolina found there were a higher proportion of children with more than one untreated decayed primary tooth as well as fewer children receiving dental treatment after 2006. The study covering 7 school years from 2003 to 2010 and 1,215 schools used increased participation in the National School Lunch Program as an indicator of the Great Recession.
AHRQ-funded; HS000032
Citation: Abasaeed R, Kranz AM, Rozier RG .
The impact of the Great Recession on untreated dental caries among kindergarten students in North Carolina.
J Am Dent Assoc. 2013 Sep;144(9):1038-46..
Keywords: Children/Adolescents, Dental and Oral Health, Healthcare Costs, Access to Care, Low-Income
Mohanan M
Causal effects of health shocks on consumption and debt: Quasi-experimental evidence from bus accident injuries.
Mohanan presented new evidence of causal effects on consumption and debt, finding that households faced with shock-related expenditures are able to smooth consumption on food, housing, and festivals, with small reductions in educational spending.
AHRQ-funded; HS000055.
Citation: Mohanan M .
Causal effects of health shocks on consumption and debt: Quasi-experimental evidence from bus accident injuries.
Rev Econ Stat 2013 May;95(2):673-81. doi: 10.1162/REST_a_00262.
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Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Injuries and Wounds, Social Determinants of Health
Mohanan M
Causal effects of health shocks on consumption and debt: Quasi-experimental evidence from bus accident injuries.
Mohanan presented new evidence of causal effects on consumption and debt, finding that households faced with shock-related expenditures are able to smooth consumption on food, housing, and festivals, with small reductions in educational spending.
AHRQ-funded; HS000055.
Citation: Mohanan M .
Causal effects of health shocks on consumption and debt: Quasi-experimental evidence from bus accident injuries.
Rev Econ Stat 2013 May;95(2):673-81. doi: 10.1162/REST_a_00262..
Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Injuries and Wounds, Social Determinants of Health
Cohen SB, Cohen JW
AHRQ Author: Cohen SB, Cohen JW
The capacity of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to inform the Affordable Care Act.
The authors provided a summary of the capacity of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to inform program planning, implementation, and evaluations of program performance for several components of the Affordable Care Act.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Cohen SB, Cohen JW .
The capacity of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to inform the Affordable Care Act.
Inquiry 2013 May;50(2):124-34. doi: 10.1177/0046958013513678.
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Keywords: Data, Healthcare Costs, Health Insurance, Policy, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Machlin SR, Soni A
AHRQ Author: Machlin SR, Soni A
Health care expenditures for adults with multiple treated chronic conditions: estimates from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2009.
The authors illustrated the usefulness of MEPS data for examining variations in medical expenditures for people with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). They found that the proportion of adults treated for MCC increased with age, with white non-Hispanic adults most likely and Hispanic and Asian adults least likely to be treated for MCC. Regardless of age or sex, hypertension and hyperlipidemia was the most common dyad among adults treated for MCC, and diabetes in conjunction with these 2 conditions was a common triad. They concluded that MEPS has the capacity to produce national estimates of health care expenditures associated with MCC.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Machlin SR, Soni A .
Health care expenditures for adults with multiple treated chronic conditions: estimates from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2009.
Prev Chronic Dis 2013 Apr 25;10:E63. doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120172.
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Keywords: Cancer: Colorectal Cancer, Chronic Conditions, Healthcare Costs, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Steiner CA, Friedman B
AHRQ Author: Steiner CA, Friedman B
Hospital utilization, costs, and mortality for adults with multiple chronic conditions, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2009.
The investigators provided a national estimate across all payers of the distribution and cost of selected chronic conditions for hospitalized adults in 2009, stratified by demographic characteristics. They found that there were approximately 28 million adult discharges from US hospitals other than those related to pregnancy and maternity; 39% had 2 to 3 multiple chronic conditions (MCC), and 33% had 4 or more. They concluded that their descriptive analysis of multipayer inpatient data provides a robust national view of the substantial use and costs among adults hospitalized with MCC.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Steiner CA, Friedman B .
Hospital utilization, costs, and mortality for adults with multiple chronic conditions, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2009.
Prev Chronic Dis 2013 Apr 25;10:E62. doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120292.
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Keywords: Chronic Conditions, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Hospitalization, Mortality
Braithwaite S, Friedman B, Mutter R
AHRQ Author: Friedman B, Mutter R
Microsimulation of financial impact of demand surge on hospitals: the H1N1 influenza pandemic of fall 2009.
Microsimulation was used to assess the financial impact on hospitals of a surge in influenza admissions in advance of the H1N1 pandemic in the fall of 2009 with the goal of estimating net income and losses of a response of filling unused hospital bed capacity proportionately and postponing elective admissions. They concluded that aggregate and distributional results did not suggest that a policy of promising additional financial compensation to hospitals in anticipation of the surge in flu cases was necessary.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Braithwaite S, Friedman B, Mutter R .
Microsimulation of financial impact of demand surge on hospitals: the H1N1 influenza pandemic of fall 2009.
Health Serv Res 2013 Apr;48(2 Pt 2):735-52. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12041.
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Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Hospitalization, Influenza
Miller GE, Selden TM
AHRQ Author: Miller GE, Selden TM
Tax subsidies for employer-sponsored health insurance: updated microsimulation estimates and sensitivity to alternative incidence assumptions.
Using MEPS data, the authors estimated 2012 tax expenditures for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) in the United States and explored the sensitivity of estimates to assumptions regarding the incidence of employer premium contributions. They concluded that the aggregate value of the ESI tax subsidy and its distribution across firms can be reliably estimated using simplified incidence assumptions.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Miller GE, Selden TM .
Tax subsidies for employer-sponsored health insurance: updated microsimulation estimates and sensitivity to alternative incidence assumptions.
Health Serv Res 2013 Apr;48(2 Pt 2):866-83. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12037.
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Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Health Insurance, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)