Federal Drug Administration approves Alzheimer’s blood test for use in primary care
1. The FDA has cleared the first Alzheimer’s blood test for community use, marking a pivotal step toward earlier and ...
Tag: medicare
Risk of financial precarity from hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries ineligible for Medicaid
1. In this cross-sectional study examining four scenarios, many participants earning between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level ...
Adults over the age of sixty-five spend over twenty days per year obtaining health care
1. In this cross-sectional study, community-dwelling adults over the age of sixty-five averaged nearly twenty-one “health care contact days” per ...
Remote patient monitoring may improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with hypertension
1. In this observational study, patients in high remote patient monitoring (RPM) practices had better hypertension outcomes than those at ...
The rate of physician turnover increased between 2010 and 2014
1. In this retrospective Medicare data review, the rate of standard physician turnover increased from 5.3% to 7.2% between 2010 ...
#VisualAbstract: Lower rates of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in Black and Hispanic patients
1. In this retrospective study of Medicare claims data from 2016 to 2019, receipt of opioid use disorder (OUD) medications ...
Lower rates of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in Black and Hispanic patients
1. In this retrospective study of Medicare claims data from 2016 to 2019, receipt of opioid use disorder (OUD) medications ...
Self-reported functional impairment and frailty improve the prediction of healthcare expenditures
1. In this retrospective cohort study, the inclusion of functional impairment and phenotypic frailty more accurately predicted healthcare costs in ...
Medicare Advantage associated with reduced hospital readmissions and mortality rankings
1. One-quarter of top-performing quintile hospitals were reclassified to a lower performance group when Medicare Advantage beneficiaries were included compared ...
Primary care physicians underuse Medicare prevention and coordination codes
1. If half of eligible Medicare patients received preventive and coordination services, primary care providers (PCP) could significantly increase annual ...
