Tag: medicare

1. Medicare advantage and traditional Medicare physician reimbursement are relatively similar across physician services. 2. Medicare Advantage plans, however, have ...

  1. Based on this retrospective cohort analysis, there is substantial variation in markup of charges across the United States ...

1. There were a significant number of characteristics not currently employed by Medicare that predicted 30-day hospital readmissions, and which ...

1. This study found improvements in self-reported trends in insurance coverage, primary care access, affordability of healthcare, access to medicine, ...

Ezetimibe Added to Statin Therapy after Acute Coronary Syndromes HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) lower LDL cholesterol levels and reduce the ...

1. Individuals who searched for services using a price transparency service prior to receiving care had lower claims payments made ...

In this section, we highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the past week. Effects ...

Image: PD 1. Low-value or unnecessary care was found to affect 42% of Medicare beneficiaries or 25% using a more ...

Image: PD 1. Surgical admissions at Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) resulted in transfers more frequently than at non-CAH hospitals.  2. ...

Image: PD 1. A significant number of Medicare beneficiaries received opioid prescriptions from more than one physician. 2. Increased concurrent ...