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Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Preventable Hospitalizations And ED Visits Five Years After ACA Medicaid Expansions

Asako S. Moriya, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Sujoy Chakravarty ([email protected]), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Medicaid expansions under the ...
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Primary Care: Proposed Solutions To The Physician Shortage Without Training More Physicians

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Mark D. Smith is president and CEO ...
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Gradual Rebalancing Of Medicaid Long-Term Services And Supports Saves Money And Serves More People, Statistical Model Shows

H. Stephen Kaye ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Health and Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, both at the University of California, San ...
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Best Practices Using SSR Health Net Drug Pricing Data

The list price of branded drugs sold in the US market often differs substantially from the “net” prices ultimately paid for them—a phenomenon that has grown more pronounced in recent years. While list ...
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Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) broad authority to test out new payment models that have the potential to reduce Medicare spending, as long as ...