Medicare Part A

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adherence to diabetes guidelines for screening, physical activity and medication and onset of complications and death. 
  • An analysis of disenrollment from Medicare managed care plans by Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes. 
  • An examination of Alzheimer's disease case definitions using Medicare claims and survey data. 
  • Analysis of underwriting factors for AAPCC (adjusted average per capita cost). 
  • Disenrollment from Medicare HMOs. 
  • Estimates of incidence rates with longitudinal claims data. 
  • Geographic variation in resource use for coronary artery bypass surgery. IHD Port Investigators. 
  • How should hospitals relate to Medicare HMOs? 
  • Longitudinal rates of cataract surgery. 
  • Merging Medicare Parts A and B: potential effects on beneficiaries, surgeons, and other stakeholders. 
  • Pharmacologic prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism and 30-day outcomes among older patients hospitalized with heart failure: an analysis from the ADHERE national registry linked to Medicare claims. 
  • Resource use and costs associated with diabetic macular edema in elderly persons. 
  • The effect of hospice on Medicare and informal care costs: the U.S. Experience. 
  • Total joint arthroplasty: trends in medicare reimbursement and implant prices. 
  • Use of Medicare services before and after introduction of the prospective payment system. 
  • Using Medicare claims data to assess provider quality for CABG surgery: does it work well enough? 
  • Using Medicare claims for outcomes research. 
  • Uveitis in the elderly: epidemiological data from the National Long-term Care Survey Medicare Cohort. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine