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  • A comprehensive assessment of the cost of multiple sclerosis in the United States. 
  • A national study for regional variation of inpatient ECT utilization from 4,411 hospitals across the United States. 
  • ACA Medicaid Expansion Associated With Increased Medicaid Participation and Improved Health Among Near-Elderly: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study. 
  • Access to Health Care and Hearing Evaluation in US Adults. 
  • Access to Urological Care for Medicaid-Insured Patients at Urology Practices Acquired by Private Equity Firms. 
  • 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. 
  • Addressing Health Insurance Literacy Gaps in an Urban African American Population: A Qualitative Study. 
  • 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? 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology guidance statement: the cost of cancer care. 
  • 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 Effectiveness of Care Quality Ratings and Insurer Characteristics in the Health Insurance Marketplaces. 
  • Association Between Long-term Opioid Use in Family Members and Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery Among Adolescents and Young Adults. 
  • Association Between Provider-Sponsored Health Plan Ownership and Health Insurance Marketplace Plan Quality. 
  • Association between physician billing and cardiac stress testing patterns following coronary revascularization. 
  • Association of Federal Mental Health Parity Legislation With Health Care Use and Spending Among High Utilizers of Services. 
  • Association of Funding Cuts to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Navigator Program With Privately Sponsored Television Advertising. 
  • Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act With Use of Long-term Care. 
  • Association of insurance status with inpatient treatment for coronary artery disease: findings from the Get With the Guidelines program. 
  • Associations of Insurance Churn and Catastrophic Health Expenditures With Implementation of the Affordable Care Act Among Nonelderly Patients With Cancer in the United States. 
  • Associations of Medicaid Expansion With Access to Care, Severity, and Outcomes for Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • 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 
  • Bending the curve through health reform implementation. 
  • Beyond the Window: Patient Characteristics and Geographic Locations Associated with Late Prenatal Care in Women Eligible for 17-P Preterm Birth Prevention. 
  • Bias, discrimination, and obesity. 
  • Billing and Insurance–Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis 
  • Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment After High-Deductible Insurance Enrollment. 
  • Cancer screening before and after switching to a high-deductible health plan. 
  • 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. 
  • Catastrophic Health Expenditures With Pregnancy and Delivery in the United States. 
  • Catastrophic health expenditures, insurance churn, and nonemployment among gynecologic cancer patients in the United States. 
  • Change in stage of presentation of head and neck cancer in the United States before and after the affordable care act. 
  • 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. 
  • 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). 
  • Clinician Specialty, Access to Care, and Outcomes Among Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease. 
  • Clinician Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes among Privately Insured Patients in 2016. 
  • 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. 
  • Colorectal testing utilization and payments in a large cohort of commercially insured US adults. 
  • Commentary on caring for the uninsured and underinsured. 
  • Community Size and Lung Cancer Resection Outcomes: Studying The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • 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. 
  • Consumers' use of the Internet for health insurance. 
  • 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. 
  • Correlates of Preincarceration Health Care Use Among Women and Men in Jail. 
  • 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. 
  • Costs Are Higher For Marketplace Members Who Enroll During Special Enrollment Periods Compared With Open Enrollment. 
  • Current national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery. 
  • Declines in health insurance among cancer survivors since the 2016 US elections. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Diabetes Microvascular Disease Diagnosis and Treatment After High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollment. 
  • 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. 
  • Disparities in Dental Service Utilization among Adults in Chinese Megacities: Do Health Insurance and City of Residence Matter? 
  • 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". 
  • Does health insurance impact health service utilization among older adults in urban China? A nationwide cross-sectional study. 
  • Driving Access and Quality: A Shift to Value-Based Behavioral Health Care. 
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis control in China: progress and challenges. 
  • Duration of Dermatitis Before Patch Test Appointment Is Associated With Distance to Clinic and County Poverty Rate. 
  • Effect of High-Deductible Insurance on High-Acuity Outcomes in Diabetes: A Natural Experiment for Translation in Diabetes (NEXT-D) Study. 
  • Effect of Regional Hospital Market Competition on Use Patterns of Free Flap Breast Reconstruction. 
  • Effect of high-deductible insurance on health care use in bipolar disorder. 
  • 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. 
  • Embedding Student Volunteer Affordable Care Act Navigators in a Primary Care Clinic. 
  • Emergency Department Bouncebacks: Is Lack of Primary Care Access the Primary Cause? 
  • Emergency department visits attributable to asthma in North Carolina, 2008. 
  • Emergency medical services system utilization over the last 10 years: what predicts transport of children? 
  • Employer-Sponsored Coverage Stabilized And Uninsurance Declined In The Second Year Of The COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • 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. 
  • Evaluating Natural Experiments that Impact the Diabetes Epidemic: an Introduction to the NEXT-D3 Network. 
  • Experiences of health care costs among people with employer-sponsored insurance and bipolar disorder. 
  • Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. 
  • Extending Delivery Coverage to Include Prenatal Care for Low-Income, Immigrant Women Is a Cost-Effective Strategy. 
  • 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 time to surgery in melanoma: An analysis of the National Cancer Database. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 Insurance Payer Type and Ethnicity Are Associated with Cancer Clinical Trial Enrollment Among Adolescents and Young Adults. 
  • 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 reform. Or not? 
  • Health-related quality of life in depression: a STAR*D report. 
  • Helping Men Find Their Way: Improving Prostate Cancer Clinic Attendance via Patient Navigation. 
  • 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. 
  • High-Deductible Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: A Match Made in Heaven but Not for This Irrational World. 
  • High-Deductible Insurance and Delay in Care for the Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes. 
  • High-Deductible Insurance and Delay in Care. 
  • High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled? 
  • 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 high-deductible insurance on adjuvant hormonal therapy use in breast cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Increasing Insurance Choices In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2018-21. 
  • Individual Health Insurance Market Reinsurance After the Passage of the American Rescue Plan Act. 
  • 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 mandates and trends in infertility treatments. 
  • 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 as a mediator of clinical presentation, type of intervention, and short-term outcomes for patients with metastatic spine disease. 
  • 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. 
  • Insurance-Based Differences in Time to Diagnostic Follow-up after Positive Screening Mammography. 
  • Insurer Market Concentration. 
  • Integrating Stakeholder Engagement With Claims-Based Research on Health Insurance Design and Bipolar Disorder. 
  • Introductory Overview of the Natural Experiments for Translation in Diabetes 2.0 (NEXT-D2) Network: Examining the Impact of US Health Policies and Practices to Prevent Diabetes and Its Complications. 
  • Is Bigger Better?: The Effect of Hospital Consolidation on Index Hospitalization Costs and Outcomes Among Privately Insured Recipients of Immediate Breast Reconstruction. 
  • Is health insurance affordable for the uninsured? 
  • Is hospital procedure volume associated with hospitalization charges and complication rates for cleft lip repairs? 
  • Is lack of health insurance a predictor of worsening of heart failure among adult patients attending referral hospitals in Northwestern Tanzania? 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Mammography rates 3 years after the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force Guidelines changes. 
  • 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. 
  • Medicaid Expansion Reduced Uninsured Surgical Hospitalizations And Associated Catastrophic Financial Burden. 
  • Medical care surrounding work-related back injury claims among Washington State Union Carpenters, 1989-2003. 
  • Medical students and the Affordable Care Act: uninformed and undecided. 
  • 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. 
  • Mortality In Rural China Declined As Health Insurance Coverage Increased, But No Evidence The Two Are Linked. 
  • Multi-source financing for tuberculosis treatment in China: key issues and challenges. 
  • 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? 
  • National trends and disparities in cervical cancer screening among commercially insured Women, 2001-2010. 
  • Navigating the high costs of cancer care: opportunities for patient engagement. 
  • Navigating the rise of high-deductible health insurance: childbirth in the bronze age. 
  • Opioid abuse/dependence among those hospitalized due to periapical abscess. 
  • Out-of-network bills among privately insured patients undergoing hysterectomy. 
  • Outpatient Visits among Older Adults Living Alone in China: Does Health Insurance and City of Residence Matter? 
  • 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 demographics and health plan paid costs in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Patient satisfaction with the Nigerian National Health Insurance Scheme two decades since establishment: A systematic review and recommendations for improvement. 
  • Persistence of delays in presentation and treatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction: The GUSTO-I and GUSTO-III experience. 
  • Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues and Policy Options 
  • Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data. 
  • 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. 
  • Practical challenges in the conduct of pragmatic trials embedded in health plans: Lessons of IMPACT-AFib, an FDA-Catalyst trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Pregnancy Medicaid Improvements in a Nonexpansion State After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • 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. 
  • Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice. 
  • 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. 
  • Quality and Cost of Care by Hospital Teaching Status: What Are the Differences? 
  • 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 Pandemic-Era Unemployment Insurance Access: Implications For Health And Well-Being. 
  • Racial Differences in Neurocognitive Outcomes Post-Stroke: The Impact of Healthcare Variables. 
  • 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 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 Operative and Nonoperative Interventions Up to 4 Years After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Nationwide US Commercial Insurance Claims Database. 
  • Risk of venous thromboembolism occurrence among adults with selected autoimmune diseases: a study among a U.S. cohort of commercial insurance enrollees. 
  • Scaling up community-based health insurance in Ethiopia: a qualitative study of the benefits and challenges. 
  • 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. 
  • Sociodemographic correlates of head and neck cancer survival among patients with metastatic disease. 
  • Socioeconomic and Demographic Variation in Insurance Coverage Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • 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. 
  • Survival outcomes for head and neck patients with Medicaid: A health insurance paradox. 
  • 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. 
  • Ten-year impacts of China's rural health scheme: lessons for universal health coverage. 
  • Terminating Cost-Sharing Reduction Subsidy Payments: The Impact Of Marketplace Zero-Dollar Premium Plans On Enrollment. 
  • The ACA and high-deductible insurance--strategies for sharpening a blunt instrument. 
  • The CHAMPUS Tidewater Demonstration Project. 
  • The Effects of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance 
  • The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on North Carolinian Breast Cancer Patients Seeking Financial Support for Treatment. 
  • The Importance of Safety-Net Hospitals in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • 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 COVID-19 on HIV financing in Nigeria: a call for proactive measures. 
  • 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 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 magnitude and nature of risk selection in employer-sponsored health plans. 
  • 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. 
  • Today's Students, Tomorrow's Physicians: Opinions on Enacted and Prospective Health Care Policies. 
  • Total and out-of-pocket expenditures among women with metastatic breast cancer in low-deductible versus high-deductible health plans. 
  • Trends and Demographics in the Utilization of Total Wrist Arthroplasty. 
  • Trends in Diagnostic Imaging Utilization among Medicare and Commercially Insured Adults from 2003 through 2016. 
  • Trends in Infertility Care Among Commercially Insured US Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Trends in Inpatient and Outpatient Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy Rates Among Commercially Insured Women in the United States, 2000-2014. 
  • Trends in Insurance Status Among Patients Diagnosed With Cancer Before and After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • 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. 
  • Trends of Total Knee Arthroplasty According to Age Structural Changes in Korea from 2011 to 2018. 
  • 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. 
  • Underuse of oral anticoagulants in privately insured patients with atrial fibrillation: A population being targeted by the IMplementation of a randomized controlled trial to imProve treatment with oral AntiCoagulanTs in patients with Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AFib). 
  • 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 Advance Care Planning Billing Codes in a Retrospective Cohort of Privately Insured Patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Utilization patterns and characteristics of users of biologic anti-inflammatory agents in a large, US commercially insured population. 
  • 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 tonsillectomy rates by health care system type. 
  • Vaso-occlusive crises and costs of sickle cell disease in patients with commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare insurance - the perspective of private and public payers. 
  • Venous thromboembolism after thoracic/thoracolumbar spinal fusion. 
  • Venous thromboembolism risk in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy: a real-world analysis. 
  • Vulnerable And Less Vulnerable Women In High-Deductible Health Plans Experienced Delayed Breast Cancer Care. 
  • When All That Glitters Is Gold: Dominated Plan Choice on Covered California for the 2018 Plan Year. 
  • Who are the new users of antipsychotic medications? 
  • Who searches the internet for health information? 
  • Why Are Medicare and commercial insurance spending weakly correlated? 
  • Will CMS Find Aducanumab Reasonable and Necessary for Alzheimer Disease After FDA Approval? 
  • Withholding versus withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: patient factors and documentation associated with dialysis decisions. 
  • Women's Coverage, Utilization, Affordability, And Health After The ACA: A Review Of The Literature. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine