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 ...
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Accelerated approval drugs incur significant fee-for-service Medicare costs
1. Medicare beneficiaries used 36 accelerated approved drugs across 55 indications, totaling $1.2 billion in Medicare fee-for-service spending in 2019. ...
United States providers increased prescribing of buprenorphine/naloxone
1. This quantitative study found that the number of providers prescribing buprenorphine/naloxone within Medicare Part D increased between 2013 and ...
Association of ECT with risks of all-cause mortality and suicide in older Medicare patients
1. In a cohort of older adults with mood disorders in the United States, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was associated with ...
#VisualAbstract: Skin biopsy rates have disproportionately increased compared to cancer treatments between 1993-2016
Click to read the study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Annual mammography past 75 years of age not associated with reductions in mortality
1. In this observational study involving women aged 70 to 84 years with a life expectancy of at least 10 ...
ACA implementation not linked to a surge in hospital use
1. In this repeated cross-sectional study, there were no significant differences observed between hospital discharges before or after the implementation ...
Beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage run higher risk of readmission compared with traditional Medicare
1. In this retrospective cohort study, the authors observed that Medicare Advantage beneficiaries have a higher risk of readmission compared ...
Better supporting the care needs of older adults with disabilities could reduce Medicare spending
1. The results of this observational study using data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, indicate that older ...
Little variation seen in readmission rates between primary care physicians in Texas
1. In this retrospective cohort study, there was very little variation in 30-day readmission rates between different primary care physicians ...
