Insurance, Health

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comprehensive assessment of the cost of multiple sclerosis in the United States. 
  • Access to Health Care and Hearing Evaluation in US Adults. 
  • Access to and affordability of healthcare for TB patients in China: issues and challenges. 
  • Access to care: beyond health insurance. 
  • Accessibility and Barriers to Oncology Appointments at 40 National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers: Results of a Mystery Shopper Project. 
  • Actual medical and pharmacy costs for bariatric surgery: 6-year follow-up. 
  • Addressing the 100% of heart failure: a call for complete care of all ages. 
  • Administrative Costs Associated With Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System 
  • Adults' lack of a usual source of care: a matter of preference? 
  • Advanced stage at diagnosis and elevated mortality among US patients with cancer infected with HIV in the National Cancer Data Base. 
  • Agreement between self-reported use of in vitro fertilization or ovulation induction, and medical insurance claims in Australian women aged 28-36 years. 
  • Alcohol, Injuries, and Outcomes Comparing Injured Moped and Motorcycle Drivers. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology guidance statement: the cost of cancer care. 
  • An ecological perspective on rural, low-income mothers' health. 
  • An economic framework for preventive care advice. 
  • An examination of the dental utilization practices of adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: payer-and service-specific estimates. 
  • Are all health plans created equal? The physician's view. 
  • Assessment of advanced gastric cancer management in the United States. 
  • Assessment of multimodality therapy use for extremity sarcoma in the United States. 
  • Association between physician billing and cardiac stress testing patterns following coronary revascularization. 
  • Association of State Medicaid Expansion With Quality of Care and Outcomes for Low-Income Patients Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Association of insurance status with inpatient treatment for coronary artery disease: findings from the Get With the Guidelines program. 
  • Bariatric surgery barriers: a review using Andersen's Model of Health Services Use. 
  • Barriers to Hospice Care in Trauma Patients: The Disparities in End-of-Life Care. 
  • Battling the Chargemaster: A Simple Remedy to Balance Billing for Unavoidable Out-Of-Network Care 
  • Bias, discrimination, and obesity. 
  • Breast cancer patients' experiences within and outside the safety net. 
  • Cancer treatment cost in the United States: has the burden shifted over time? 
  • Case shifting and the Medicare Prospective Payment System. 
  • Case-mix adjusted analyses of service utilization for a Medicaid health insuring organization in Philadelphia. 
  • Changes in Young Adult Primary Care Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) and its treatment: an NIH Collaboratory study of claims data. 
  • Childhood immunization programs: an analysis of policy issues. 
  • Children's health insurance status and emergency department utilization in the United States. 
  • Clinical and economic outcomes of thyroid and parathyroid surgery in children. 
  • Clinical characteristics, process of care, and outcomes of Hispanic patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE). 
  • Clinicians' utilization of child mental health telephone consultation in primary care: findings from Massachusetts. 
  • Clustering of health, crime and social-welfare inequality in 4 million citizens from two nations. 
  • Cognitive behavioral control of arthritis pain. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening awareness and intentions among low income, sociodemographically diverse adults under age 50. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening: prevalence among low-income groups with health insurance. 
  • Commentary on "Distinguishing genetic from nongenetic medical tests: some implications for antidiscrimination legislation" (J.S. Alper and J. Beckwith) 
  • Commentary on caring for the uninsured and underinsured. 
  • Comparing a medical records-based and a claims-based index for measuring comorbidity in patients with lung or colon cancer. 
  • Confidentiality and health insurance fraud. 
  • Confirmation of administrative claims-identified opportunistic infections and other serious potential adverse events associated with tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. 
  • Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. 
  • Continental Divide? The attitudes of US and Canadian oncologists on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and health policies associated with new cancer drugs. 
  • Continuity of medical care, health insurance, and nonmedical advice in the first 3 years of life. 
  • Contrasting patterns of care for musculoskeletal disorders and injuries of the upper extremity and knee through workers' compensation and private health care insurance among union carpenters in Washington State, 1989 to 2008. 
  • Cost analysis of myasthenia gravis from a large U.S. insurance database. 
  • Cost of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma: a retrospective study of commercial insurance claims data. 
  • Current national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery. 
  • Current trends in reducing cardiovascular risk factors in the United States: focus on worksite health and wellness. 
  • Declining rates of work-related overexertion back injuries among union drywall installers in Washington State, 1989-2008: Improved work safety or shifting of care? 
  • Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: An Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database. 
  • Delivering affordable cancer care in high-income countries. 
  • Demographic, Social, and Behavioral Determinants of Lung Cancer Perceived Risk and Worries in a National Sample of American Adults; Does Lung Cancer Risk Matter? 
  • Determinants of usual source of care disparities among African American and Caribbean Black men: findings from the National Survey of American Life. 
  • Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for intervention. 
  • Determining an episode of care using claims data. Diabetic foot ulcer. 
  • Differences in short-term versus long-term outcomes of older black versus white patients with myocardial infarction: findings from the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines (CRUSADE). 
  • Direct costs of allergic rhinitis in the United States: estimates from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
  • Direct, progressive association of cardiovascular risk factors with incident proteinuria: results from the Korea Medical Insurance Corporation (KMIC) study. 
  • Directory of Internet documents for consumers on quality of care. 
  • Discontinuation of thyroid hormone treatment among children in the United States with congenital hypothyroidism: findings from health insurance claims data. 
  • Disparities in preschool immunization coverage associated with maternal age. 
  • Disparities in the outcomes of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery based on insurance status. 
  • Disparity in reimbursement for tuberculosis care among different health insurance schemes: evidence from three counties in central China. 
  • Do United States-based Medicaid spend-down programmes make public sense for persons with HIV/AIDS? 
  • Do Veterans Health Administration Enrollees Generalize to Other Populations? 
  • Do nurse-led skill training interventions affect informal caregivers' out-of-pocket expenditures? 
  • Does access to health care impact survival time after diagnosis of AIDS? 
  • Does bedside rationing violate patients' best interests? An exploration of "moral hazard". 
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis control in China: progress and challenges. 
  • Dynamic profile of health investment and the evolution of elderly health. 
  • Effect of Regional Hospital Market Competition on Use Patterns of Free Flap Breast Reconstruction. 
  • Effect of insurance status on postacute care among working age stroke survivors. 
  • Effective coverage for hypertension treatment among middle-aged adults and the older population in China, 2011 to 2013: A nationwide longitudinal study. 
  • Effectiveness of an on-site health clinic at a self-insured university: a cost-benefit analysis. 
  • Effects of health insurance on physicians' fees. 
  • Effects of state reforms on health insurance coverage of adults. 
  • Emergency medical services system utilization over the last 10 years: what predicts transport of children? 
  • Employment after coronary angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery in patients employed at the time of revascularization. 
  • Epidemiologic Analysis of Elective Operative Procedures in Infants Less Than 6 Months of Age in the United States. 
  • Epidemiology of facial fracture injuries. 
  • Equity in access to healthcare among the urban elderly in China: does health insurance matter? 
  • Estimates of state-level health-care expenditures associated with disability. 
  • Estimating the probability and level of ambulatory mental health services use. 
  • Ethnicity and the use of outpatient mental health services in a national insured population. 
  • Evolving Trends in Autologous Breast Reconstruction: Is the Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator Flap Taking Over? 
  • Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. 
  • Exposure to General Anesthesia and Risk of Dementia: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study. 
  • Extent of and reasons for nonuse of implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices in clinical practice among eligible patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 
  • FDA-Catalyst-Using FDA's Sentinel Initiative for large-scale pragmatic randomized trials: Approach and lessons learned during the planning phase of the first trial. 
  • Factors associated with traditional Chinese medicine utilization among urban community health centers in Hubei Province of China. 
  • Factors influencing uptake of pharmacogenetic testing in a diverse patient population. 
  • Factors predicting change in prescription and nonprescription drug use in a community-residing black and white elderly population. 
  • Financial Burden in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care: It's Time to Intervene. 
  • Financing health care in rural China: preliminary report of a nationwide study. 
  • Foregone health care among adolescents. 
  • Gaps in the delivery of rehabilitation medical equipment in the digital age. 
  • George Bush, Michael Dukakis, and health policy issues in the 1988 presidential campaign. 
  • HIV test-seeking before and after the restriction of anonymous testing in North Carolina. 
  • Having health insurance does not eliminate race/ethnicity-associated delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of Columbia. 
  • Health Insurance Incentives to Enhance Patient Engagement. 
  • Health care insurance, financial concerns in accessing care, and delays to hospital presentation in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Health care utilization of carpenters with substance abuse-related diagnoses. 
  • Health insurance and racial disparities in pulmonary hypertension outcomes. 
  • Health insurance coverage and use of eye care services. 
  • Health needs and health care utilization among rural, low-income women. 
  • Health reform. Or not? 
  • Health services use among Gulf War veterans and Gulf War era nondeployed veterans: a large population-based survey. 
  • Hepatitis B virus vaccine: cost effects and insurance coverage. 
  • High Caesarean section rate in rural China: is it related to health insurance (New Co-operative Medical Scheme)? 
  • High users of outpatient mental health services, I: Definition and characteristics. 
  • Hospitalisation among the elderly in urban China. 
  • How Obamacare will impact reproductive health. 
  • How does the New Cooperative Medical Scheme influence health service utilization? A study in two provinces in rural China. 
  • How effectively can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme reduce catastrophic health expenditure for the poor and non-poor in rural China? 
  • Hypertensive disease in pregnancy: an examination of ethnic differences and the Hispanic paradox. 
  • Impact of Insurance Provider on Overall Costs in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: A Cost Study of 122,827 Patients. 
  • Impact of Insurance Status on Outcomes and Use of Rehabilitation Services in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Impact of alternative reimbursement strategies in the new cooperative medical scheme on caesarean delivery rates: a mixed-method study in rural China. 
  • Impact of an innovative financing and payment model on tuberculosis patients' financial burden: is tuberculosis care more affordable for the poor? 
  • Impact of insurance type on survivor-focused and general preventive health care utilization in adult survivors of childhood cancer: the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). 
  • Implementing Lung Cancer Screening Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography: Recommendations From an Expert Panel. 
  • Incidence of mental health hospitalizations, treated self-harm, and emergency room visits following new anxiety disorder diagnoses in privately insured U.S. children. 
  • Inequalities in the use of helmets by race and payer status among pediatric cyclists. 
  • Inequity in healthcare needs, health service use and financial burden of medical expenditures in China: results from a consecutive household monitoring study in Jiangsu Province. 
  • Influence of race, insurance, socioeconomic status, and hospital type on receipt of guideline-concordant adjuvant systemic therapy for locoregional breast cancers. 
  • Insurance coverage among women diagnosed with a gynecologic malignancy before and after implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Insurance coverage and care of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Insurance coverage and incentives for weight loss among adults with metabolic syndrome. 
  • Insurance disparities in the outcomes of spinal cord stimulation surgery. 
  • Insurance status and outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage: findings from Get With The Guidelines-stroke. 
  • Insurance status and race affect treatment and outcome of traumatic brain injury. 
  • Insurance status and race represent independent predictors of undergoing laparoscopic surgery for appendicitis: secondary data analysis of 145,546 patients. 
  • Insurance status predicts acuity of thoracic aortic operations. 
  • Insurance, chronic health conditions, and utilization of primary and specialty outpatient services: a Childhood Cancer Survivor Study report. 
  • Is Bigger Better?: The Effect of Hospital Consolidation on Index Hospitalization Costs and Outcomes Among Privately Insured Recipients of Immediate Breast Reconstruction. 
  • Is hospital procedure volume associated with hospitalization charges and complication rates for cleft lip repairs? 
  • Is there a rationale for regionalizing organ transplantation services? 
  • It's the amount of thought that counts: when ambivalence contributes to mammography screening delay. 
  • It's time to have 'the talk': cost communication and patient-centered care. 
  • Large Disparities in Receipt of Glaucoma Care between Enrollees in Medicaid and Those with Commercial Health Insurance. 
  • Linked insurance-tumor registry database for health services research. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Low-Income Working Families With Employer-Sponsored Insurance Turn To Public Insurance For Their Children. 
  • Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public. 
  • Mandated coverage for cancer-screening services: whose guidelines do states follow? 
  • Massachusetts health reform and Veterans Affairs health system enrollment. 
  • Measuring access to eye care: a public health perspective. 
  • Measuring the Health Benefits of the Affordable Care Act for Young Women. 
  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Medical care surrounding work-related back injury claims among Washington State Union Carpenters, 1989-2003. 
  • Medical comorbidity in women and men with schizophrenia: a population-based controlled study. 
  • Medicare Enrollment Among Patients With End-Stage Kidney Disease Receiving Dialysis in Outpatient Facilities Between 2005 and 2016. 
  • Medicare as insurance innovator: the case of hospice. 
  • Medication adherence changes following value-based insurance design. 
  • Mixed methods study of management of health conditions in rural low-income families: implications for health care policy in the USA. 
  • National evaluation of adherence to beta-blocker therapy for 1 year after acute myocardial infarction in patients with commercial health insurance. 
  • National medical spending attributable to overweight and obesity: how much, and who's paying? 
  • Opioid abuse/dependence among those hospitalized due to periapical abscess. 
  • Overutilization of endoscopic surveillance in nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus: a multicenter study. 
  • Patient Financial Assistance Programs: A Path to Affordability or a Barrier to Accessible Cancer Care? 
  • Patient and hospital characteristics associated with inappropriate percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Patient demographics and health plan paid costs in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Perceived barriers to mammography among underserved women in a Breast Health Center Outreach Program. 
  • Persistence of delays in presentation and treatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction: The GUSTO-I and GUSTO-III experience. 
  • Pharmacogenetics. 
  • Pharmacogenetics: ethical issues and policy options. 
  • Physician assistants and nurse practitioners as a usual source of care. 
  • Physician participation in health insurance plans: evidence on Blue Shield. 
  • Physicians who report health insurance fraud and their practice type: health maintenance organization vs fee-for-service. 
  • Physicians' experiences with patient-initiated health insurance fraud. 
  • Post-traumatic stress outcomes in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors. 
  • Predictors of attrition from a clinical pediatric obesity treatment program. 
  • Predictors of stage at presentation and outcomes of head and neck cancers in a university hospital setting. 
  • Preoperative experience for public hospital patients with gynecologic cancer: Do structural barriers widen the gap? 
  • Price of Cancer Care and Its Tax on Quality of Life. 
  • Primary health care in an academic medical center. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Private health insurance coverage and disability among older Americans. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Race and Insurance Status as Predictors of Bicycle Trauma Outcome in Adults. 
  • Race and trust in the health care system. 
  • Race differences in access to health care and disparities in incident chronic kidney disease in the US. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. 
  • Racial, ethnic, and insurance status disparities in use of posthospitalization care after trauma. 
  • Rationing by any other name. 
  • Relationship between depression and pancreatic cancer in the general population. 
  • Relationship between occurrence of surgical complications and hospital finances. 
  • Retrospective, propensity score-matched cohort study examining timing of fracture fixation for traumatic thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • Rising cesarean delivery rate in primiparous women in urban China: evidence from three nationwide household health surveys. 
  • Risk of venous thromboembolism occurrence among adults with selected autoimmune diseases: a study among a U.S. cohort of commercial insurance enrollees. 
  • Seeing Health Insurance and HealthCare.gov Through the Eyes of Young Adults. 
  • Sensitivity of International Classification of Diseases codes for hyponatremia among commercially insured outpatients in the United States. 
  • Service costs of caring for adolescents with mental illness in a rural community, 1993-2000. 
  • Shopping on the Public and Private Health Insurance Marketplaces: Consumer Decision Aids and Plan Presentation. 
  • Social and racial differences in selection of breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy regimens. 
  • Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation. 
  • Socioeconomic disparities in the thoracic trauma population. 
  • Specialty Pharmaceuticals for Hyperlipidemia--Impact on Insurance Premiums. 
  • State Insurance Mandates and Multiple Birth Rates After In Vitro Fertilization. 
  • State medicaid coverage, ESRD incidence, and access to care. 
  • State- and payer-specific estimates of annual medical expenditures attributable to obesity. 
  • Statement on exercise: benefits and recommendations for physical activity programs for all Americans. A statement for health professionals by the Committee on Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association. 
  • Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents. 
  • Targeting risk factors for reducing the racially disparate burden in breast cancer. 
  • Task Force III: Assessment of psychological status in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • The CHAMPUS Tidewater Demonstration Project. 
  • The Evolving Pharmaceutical Benefits Market 
  • The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on North Carolinian Breast Cancer Patients Seeking Financial Support for Treatment. 
  • The Incidence of Spinal Cord Injury in Implantation of Percutaneous and Paddle Electrodes for Spinal Cord Stimulation. 
  • The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill's 'Harm Principle,' and American Social Morality 
  • The Opioid Epidemic in NC: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. 
  • The Parity Paradigm: Can Legislation Help Reduce the Cost Burden of Oral Anticancer Medications? 
  • The Role of Patient Financial Assistance Programs in Reducing Costs for Cancer Patients. 
  • The School Enrollment-Based Health Insurance program: socioeconomic factors in enrollees' use of health services. 
  • The defined-contribution plan: the next generation of healthcare financing. 
  • The demand for physicians' services in alternative practice settings: a multiple logit analysis. 
  • The economic burden of chronic cardiovascular disease for major insurers. 
  • The effect of NCMS on catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from tuberculosis care in China. 
  • The effect of treatment on patient-reported distress after breast cancer diagnosis. 
  • The experience of young adults on HealthCare.gov: suggestions for improvement. 
  • The fragility of the U.S. vaccine supply. 
  • The high frequency of healthcare use in patients one year prior to a sarcoidosis diagnosis. 
  • The impact of ancillary services on primary care use and outcomes for HIV/AIDS patients with public insurance coverage. 
  • The impact of health insurance status on the stage of cervical cancer diagnosis at a tertiary care center in Massachusetts. 
  • The impact of race and insurance type on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. 
  • The impact of specialty pharmaceuticals as drivers of health care costs. 
  • The impact of the new cooperative medical scheme on financial burden of tuberculosis patients: evidence from six counties in China. 
  • The impact of urban health insurance reform on hospital charges: a case study from two cities in China. 
  • The incremental value of medical nutrition therapy in weight management. 
  • The length-of-stay pattern of nursing home admissions. 
  • The lifetime medical cost burden of overweight and obesity: implications for obesity prevention. 
  • The wellbeing of the elderly. Approaches to multidimensional assessment. 
  • Therapy Caps and Variation in Cost of Outpatient Occupational Therapy by Provider, Insurance Status, and Geographic Region. 
  • Trends and Demographics in the Utilization of Total Wrist Arthroplasty. 
  • Trends in Insurance Status Among Patients Diagnosed With Cancer Before and After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Trends in diabetes mellitus among privately insured children, 1998-2002. 
  • Trends in surgical use and associated patient outcomes in the treatment of acoustic neuroma. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • Twenty years of follow-up among survivors of childhood and young adult acute myeloid leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Twenty-five-year follow-up among survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needs. 
  • Urban-rural differences in excess mortality among high-poverty populations: evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health. 
  • Use of econometric models to estimate expenditure shares. 
  • Utilisation of maternal health care in western rural China under a new rural health insurance system (New Co-operative Medical System). 
  • Utilisation, contents and costs of prenatal care under a rural health insurance (New Co-operative Medical System) in rural China: lessons from implementation. 
  • Utilization of delivery care among rural women in China: does the health insurance make a difference? a cross-sectional study. 
  • Utilization of spinal cord stimulation in patients with failed back surgery syndrome. 
  • Validating a Budget Impact Model Using Payer Insight and Claims Data: A Framework and Case Study. 
  • Value-based arrangements may be more prevalent than assumed. 
  • Value-based care. 
  • Variation in Adult Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes in the United States. 
  • Variation in tonsillectomy rates by health care system type. 
  • Venous thromboembolism after thoracic/thoracolumbar spinal fusion. 
  • Venous thromboembolism risk in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy: a real-world analysis. 
  • Who are the new users of antipsychotic medications? 
  • Withholding versus withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: patient factors and documentation associated with dialysis decisions. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine