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Mashup Score: 86Changes in Health Care Access and Preventive Health Screenings by Race and Ethnicity - 3 month(s) ago
This cross-sectional study examines changes in wellness visits and preventive health screening before and after the COVID-19 pandemic according to race and ethnicity.
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Mashup Score: 5Association of a Medicare Mandate for Shared Decision-Making With Cardiac Device Utilization - 3 month(s) ago
This cohort study evaluates the association between a Medicare shared decision-making mandate for use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators with the rate of use for this device.
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Mashup Score: 82Changes in Health Care Access and Preventive Health Screenings by Race and Ethnicity - 3 month(s) ago
This cross-sectional study examines changes in wellness visits and preventive health screening before and after the COVID-19 pandemic according to race and ethnicity.
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Mashup Score: 7“REACHing” for Equity — Moving from Regressive toward Progressive Value-Based Payment | NEJM - 3 month(s) ago
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — “REACHing” for Equity — Moving from Regressive toward Progressive Value-Based Payment
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@Health_Affairs @AshleyKyalwazi @prihatha These findings highlight that important concerns remain about the regressive nature of VBP We need to invest *more* in the health of low-income & marginalized populations, if we want to move the needle on advancing health equity @suhas_gondi /End https://t.co/kybyV253Tn
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Mashup Score: 2Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing And 30-Day Mortality At Hospitals Caring For High Proportions Of Black Adults - 3 month(s) ago
The care of Black adults is highly concentrated at a limited set of US hospitals that often have limited resources. In 2011, the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program began financially penalizing or rewarding hospitals based on thirty-day mortality rates for target conditions (myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia). Because the VBP Program has disproportionately penalized resource-constrained hospitals caring for high proportions of Black adults since its implementation in 2011, clinicians, health system leaders, and policy makers have worried that the program may unintentionally be widening racial disparities in health outcomes. Using Medicare claims for beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older who were hospitalized for three target conditions at 2,908 US hospitals participating in the VBP Program, we found that thirty-day mortality rates were consistently higher for two of three conditions at hospitals with high proportions of Black adults compared with
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Mashup Score: 1
Special Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
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Mashup Score: 3Association Between Proportion of Black Patients Cared for at Hospitals and Penalties in CMS Value-Based Payment Programs - 3 month(s) ago
This study evaluates whether US hospitals with mostly Black patients are more likely than other hospitals to have penalties associated with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) value-based payment programs.
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Mashup Score: 38Trends in Cardiovascular Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic - 4 month(s) ago
This cohort study describes changes in myocardial infarction and stroke hospitalizations as well as congestive heart failure, angina, and transient ischemic attack incidents months before and after March 2020 among insured people in New England.
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Mashup Score: 1Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Era: A National Wake-up Call to Strengthen SNAP Policy | Annals of Internal Medicine - 4 month(s) ago
In their article, Troy and colleagues use U.S. National Health Interview Survey data to compare food insecurity rates in 2021 and 2022 versus prepandemic rates in 2019. The editorialists discuss th…
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Mashup Score: 73Food Insecurity Among Low-Income U.S. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Annals of Internal Medicine - 4 month(s) ago
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New @JAMAHealthForum study We find that preventive screenings for hypertension, diabetes, & cholesterol, as well as for cancers (colorectal, breast, cervical), have not returned to prepandemic levels in the US Biggest ⬇️ seen in Asian & Hispanic adults https://t.co/VXFCu5cZZh