Insurance Coverage

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "I'm Leaving": Factors That Impact Against Medical Advice Disposition Post-Trauma. 
  • A Geospatial Analysis of Factors Affecting Access to CT Facilities: Implications for Lung Cancer Screening. 
  • A Health Insurance Tax Credit for Uninsured Workers 
  • A cost-benefit simulation model of coverage for bariatric surgery among full-time employees. 
  • ACA Medicaid Expansion Associated With Increased Medicaid Participation and Improved Health Among Near-Elderly: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study. 
  • ALS Multicenter Cohort Study of Oxidative Stress (ALS COSMOS): study methodology, recruitment, and baseline demographic and disease characteristics. 
  • Access to Urological Care for Medicaid-Insured Patients at Urology Practices Acquired by Private Equity Firms. 
  • Accuracy of Physician Estimates of Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medication Filling. 
  • Acute Surgical Decision-Making in Abdominal Trauma Is Not Altered by Race or Socioeconomic Status. 
  • Addressing barriers to optimal oral anticoagulation use and persistence among patients with atrial fibrillation: Proceedings, Washington, DC, December 3-4, 2012. 
  • Adoption of single agent anticancer therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and impact of facility type, insurance status, and income on survival: Analysis of the national cancer database 2004-2014. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology guidance statement: the cost of cancer care. 
  • An economic framework for preventive care advice. 
  • Association Between Effectiveness of Care Quality Ratings and Insurer Characteristics in the Health Insurance Marketplaces. 
  • Association Between Having an Automatic Reenrollment Option and Reenrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces. 
  • Association Between Switching to a High-Deductible Health Plan and Major Cardiovascular Outcomes. 
  • Association Of Unemployment With Medicaid Enrollment By Social Vulnerability In North Carolina During COVID-19. 
  • Association of Changes in Medicaid Dental Benefits With Localized Diagnosis of Oral Cavity Cancer. 
  • Association of Dual Eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid With Heart Failure Quality and Outcomes Among Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Hospitals. 
  • Association of Federal Mental Health Parity Legislation With Health Care Use and Spending Among High Utilizers of Services. 
  • 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. 
  • Association of vitamin D deficiency and age-related macular degeneration in medicare beneficiaries. 
  • 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. 
  • Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study. 
  • Battling the Chargemaster: A Simple Remedy to Balance Billing for Unavoidable Out-Of-Network Care 
  • Bending the curve through health reform implementation. 
  • Bladder Reconstruction Rates Differ among Centers Participating in National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 
  • Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment After High-Deductible Insurance Enrollment. 
  • Bridging the gap between financial distress and available resources for patients with cancer: a qualitative study. 
  • Can rural health insurance improve equity in health care utilization? A comparison between China and Vietnam. 
  • Cardiovascular disease risk assessment and prevention in blood donors. 
  • 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. 
  • Changes in insurance coverage for cancer patients receiving brachytherapy before and after enactment of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Changes in state prescription contraceptive mandates for insurers: the effect on women's contraceptive use. 
  • Changing access to health services in urban China: implications for equity. 
  • Characteristics associated with glycemic control among family medicine patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Characteristics of insured and noninsured outpatients with depression in STAR(*)D. 
  • China's agenda for an old-age insurance program in rural areas. 
  • Colorectal testing utilization and payments in a large cohort of commercially insured US adults. 
  • Communication factors in the follow-up of abnormal mammograms. 
  • Continental Divide? The attitudes of US and Canadian oncologists on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and health policies associated with new cancer drugs. 
  • Copay Assistance for Expensive Drugs: A Helping Hand That Raises Costs. 
  • Correlates of Preincarceration Health Care Use Among Women and Men in Jail. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of physical activity and exercise therapy programs for knee osteoarthritis: making the case for health plan coverage. 
  • Costs Are Higher For Marketplace Members Who Enroll During Special Enrollment Periods Compared With Open Enrollment. 
  • Coverage with evidence development for Medicare beneficiaries: challenges and next steps. 
  • Current national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery. 
  • Dental visits to a North Carolina emergency department: a painful problem. 
  • Disparities in access to left ventricular assist device therapy. 
  • Disparities in preschool immunization coverage associated with maternal age 
  • Disparities in the outcomes of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery based on insurance status. 
  • Disparities in the prevalence of comorbidities among US adults by state Medicaid expansion status. 
  • Disparity in reimbursement for tuberculosis care among different health insurance schemes: evidence from three counties in central China. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women. 
  • Early Medicaid Expansion and Cancer Mortality. 
  • Economic outcomes of breast cancer survivorship: CALGB study 79804. 
  • Effect of Race/ethnicity, Insurance Status, and Area Deprivation on Hip Fracture Outcomes Among Older Adults in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Effects of insurance status on children's access to specialty care: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Effects of state reforms on health insurance coverage of adults. 
  • Electroconvulsive Treatment Utilization for the Inpatient Management of Severe Manic Episodes of Bipolar Disorder. 
  • Eligibility and accessibility of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of uterine leiomyomas. 
  • Embedding Student Volunteer Affordable Care Act Navigators in a Primary Care Clinic. 
  • Emergency department revisits for patients with kidney stones in California. 
  • Emergency department use for eye care services and future directions in care. 
  • Emergency department visits attributable to asthma in North Carolina, 2008. 
  • Employer-Sponsored Coverage Stabilized And Uninsurance Declined In The Second Year Of The COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Employment, Insurance, and Financial Experiences of Patients with Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease in North America. 
  • Equity of access to outpatient care and hospitalization among older community residents in Brazil. 
  • Essentials of prescribing in the era of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act. 
  • Evidence-based medicine and policy: the case of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. 
  • Exploring the HIV continuum of care among young black MSM. 
  • Extending Delivery Coverage to Include Prenatal Care for Low-Income, Immigrant Women Is a Cost-Effective Strategy. 
  • Eye care in the United States: do we deliver to high-risk people who can benefit most from it? 
  • Factors Associated With Ambulation in Myelomeningocele: A Longitudinal Study From the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 
  • Factors associated with enrollment, satisfaction, and sustainability of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme program in six study areas in rural Beijing. 
  • Factors associated with transfer of hand injuries to a level 1 trauma center: a descriptive analysis of 1147 cases. 
  • Falling into the doughnut hole: drug spending among beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease under Medicare Part D plans. 
  • Fertility Preservation and Financial Hardship among Adolescent and Young Adult Women with Cancer. 
  • 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. 
  • Financial Toxicity: A Common but Rarely Discussed Treatment Side Effect. 
  • Financial burden, distress, and toxicity in cardiovascular disease. 
  • Financial implications of coverage for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. 
  • Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado. 
  • For Third Enrollment Period, Marketplaces Expand Decision Support Tools To Assist Consumers. 
  • Four States With Robust Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduced Opioid Dosages. 
  • Genetic testing in nephrotic syndrome--challenges and opportunities. 
  • Going for Broke: A Longitudinal Study of Patient-Reported Financial Sacrifice in Cancer Care. 
  • HMO coverage reduces variations in the use of health care among patients under age sixty-five. 
  • Health Care Disparities in Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation: Changes in Insurance Status After Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Health Care System Factors Associated with Transition Preparation in Youth with Special Health Care Needs. 
  • Health Level Seven. '96 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. 
  • Health care cost growth among the privately insured. 
  • Health care insurance, financial concerns in accessing care, and delays to hospital presentation in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Health insurance and mammography: would a Medicare buy-in take us to universal screening? 
  • Health insurance and racial disparities in pulmonary hypertension outcomes. 
  • Hearing and vision care for older adults: sensing a need to update Medicare policy. 
  • High Caesarean section rate in rural China: is it related to health insurance (New Co-operative Medical Scheme)? 
  • High-Deductible Insurance and Delay in Care. 
  • High-deductible health plans and costs and utilization of maternity care. 
  • High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled? 
  • Hospital readmissions in decompensated cirrhotics: Factors pointing toward a prevention strategy. 
  • Hospital-based emergency department visits involving dental conditions: profile and predictors of poor outcomes and resource utilization. 
  • Hospitalisation among the elderly in urban China. 
  • How do states buy health insurance for their own employees? 
  • Impact of Insurance Status on Outcomes and Use of Rehabilitation Services in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Impact of Medicare Part D on mental health treatment and outcomes for dual eligible beneficiaries with HIV. 
  • Impact of a low intensity and broadly inclusive ED care coordination intervention on linkage to primary care and ED utilization. 
  • Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • In support of equitable infertility health insurance. 
  • Increasing Insurance Choices In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2018-21. 
  • Insurance Barriers, Gendering, and Access: Interviews with Central North Carolinian Women About Their Health Care Experiences. 
  • Insurance Coverage and Forgoing Medical Appointments Because of Cost Among Cancer Survivors After 2016. 
  • Insurance Coverage, Costs, and Barriers to Care for Outpatient Musculoskeletal Therapy and Rehabilitation Services. 
  • Insurance Status and Ethnicity Impact Health Disparities in Rates of Advance Directives in Trauma. 
  • Insurance Status, Not Race, is Associated With Use of Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach for Rectal Cancer. 
  • Insurance and education predict long-term survival after orthotopic heart transplantation in the United States. 
  • 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 mandates, embryo transfer, outcomes--the link is tenuous. 
  • 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 and the treatment of myocardial infarction at academic centers. 
  • Insurance status as a mediator of clinical presentation, type of intervention, and short-term outcomes for patients with metastatic spine disease. 
  • Insurance status is associated with acuity of presentation and outcomes for thoracic aortic operations. 
  • Insurance status predicts acuity of thoracic aortic operations. 
  • Insurance status, stage of presentation, and survival among female patients with head and neck cancer. 
  • Insurance-Based Differences in Time to Diagnostic Follow-up after Positive Screening Mammography. 
  • Insured and non-insured depressed outpatients: how do they compare? 
  • Interventions to improve adherence to self-administered medications for chronic diseases in the United States: a systematic review. 
  • Is the affordable care act medicaid expansion associated with receipt of heart failure guideline-directed medical therapy by race and ethnicity? 
  • It's time to have 'the talk': cost communication and patient-centered care. 
  • Life transitions and health insurance coverage of the near elderly. 
  • Local access to subspecialty care influences the chance of receiving a liver transplant. 
  • Longitudinal discharge trends and outcomes after hospitalization for mouth cellulitis and Ludwig angina. 
  • Low-Income Children's Preventive Services Use: Implications of Parents' Medicaid Status 
  • Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public. 
  • Marketplace Plans Provide Risk Protection, But Actuarial Values Overstate Realized Coverage For Most Enrollees. 
  • Measuring the Health Benefits of the Affordable Care Act for Young Women. 
  • Medicaid Coverage Disruptions Among Children Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid From 2016 to 2018. 
  • Medicaid Enrollment among Prison Inmates in a Non-expansion State: Exploring Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors Related to Enrollment Pre-incarceration and Post-Release. 
  • Medicaid Expansion Reduced Uninsured Surgical Hospitalizations And Associated Catastrophic Financial Burden. 
  • Medicare Enrollment Among Patients With End-Stage Kidney Disease Receiving Dialysis in Outpatient Facilities Between 2005 and 2016. 
  • Medicare's demonstration of expanded coverage for chiropractic services: limitations of the demonstration and an alternative direct cost estimate. 
  • Mortality In Rural China Declined As Health Insurance Coverage Increased, But No Evidence The Two Are Linked. 
  • National Trends and Disparities in Mammography Among Commercially Insured Women, 2001-2010. 
  • Obesity and managed care: a role for activism and advocacy? 
  • Opioid abuse/dependence among those hospitalized due to periapical abscess. 
  • Overcoming barriers to care for hepatitis C. 
  • Pediatric Integrative Medicine. 
  • Perverse incentives in the Medicare prescription drug benefit. 
  • Practice profile. Community collaboration to improve care and reduce health disparities. 
  • Predictors of mortality, hospital utilization, and the role of race in outcomes in head and neck trauma. 
  • Pregnancy Medicaid Improvements in a Nonexpansion State After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Private health insurance coverage and disability among older Americans. 
  • Private health insurance coverage for substance abuse and mental health services, 1995 to 1998. 
  • Race and Insurance Status as Predictors of Bicycle Trauma Outcome in Adults. 
  • Race, insurance status, and traumatic brain injury outcomes before and after enactment of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Racial Disparities in the Administration of ECT in Texas, 1998-2013. 
  • Racial and socio-economic disparities in breast cancer hospitalization outcomes by insurance status. 
  • Racial disparities in all-cause mortality among younger commercially insured women with incident metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Racial variations in treatment and outcomes of black and white patients with high-risk non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: insights from CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines?). 
  • Racial, Socioeconomic, and Gender Disparities in the Presentation, Treatment, and Outcomes of Adult Chiari I Malformations. 
  • Relationship of Affordable Care Act Implementation to Emergency Department Utilization Among Young Adults. 
  • Report of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Venous Forum on the July 20, 2016 meeting of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee panel on lower extremity chronic venous disease. 
  • Response to Letter: Comment on "Insurance Status, Not Race Is Associated With Use of Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach for Rectal Cancer". 
  • Response: "Recognizing Implicit Bias, Not Proteomics, Is the Next Step in Mitigating Disparities in Surgical Care". 
  • Return on investment for bariatric surgery. 
  • Rural-Urban Differences In Individual-Market Health Plan Affordability After Subsidy Payment Cuts. 
  • Seeing Health Insurance and HealthCare.gov Through the Eyes of Young Adults. 
  • Should the patent system for new medicines be abolished? 
  • Sidebar: The Fourth Trimester: Promising Possibilities through Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Expansion. 
  • Social, structural, behavioral and clinical factors influencing retention in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) care in Mississippi. 
  • Sociodemographic correlates of head and neck cancer survival among patients with metastatic disease. 
  • Socioeconomic Status Affects Outcomes After Severity-Stratified Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Socioeconomic and Demographic Variation in Insurance Coverage Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Socioeconomics affecting quality outcomes in Asian trauma patients within the United States. 
  • State Insurance Mandates and Multiple Birth Rates After In Vitro Fertilization. 
  • State Medicaid expansion status, insurance coverage and stage at diagnosis in head and neck cancer patients. 
  • Storm clouds over the public mental health safety net. 
  • Substance use, dependence, and service utilization among the US uninsured nonelderly population. 
  • Supplemental security income and social security disability insurance coverage among long-term childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Survival outcomes for head and neck patients with Medicaid: A health insurance paradox. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • 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 Affordable Care Act and suicide incidence among adults with cancer. 
  • The Affordable Care Act reduces emergency department use by young adults: evidence from three States. 
  • The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion and Impact Along the Cancer-Care Continuum: A Systematic Review. 
  • The Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Treatment and Outcomes of Blunt Splenic Injury. 
  • The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill's 'Harm Principle,' and American Social Morality 
  • The Parity Paradigm: Can Legislation Help Reduce the Cost Burden of Oral Anticancer Medications? 
  • The Trump Effect: Postinauguration Changes in Marketplace Enrollment. 
  • The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public. 
  • The differential effect of compensation structures on the likelihood that firms accept new patients by insurance type. 
  • The effect of Medicaid status on weight loss, hospital length of stay, and 30-day readmission after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. 
  • The effect of heavy drinking on social security old-age and survivors insurance contributions and benefits. 
  • The effects of race and criminal justice involvement on access to atypical antipsychotic medications among persons with schizophrenia. 
  • The fragility of the U.S. vaccine supply. 
  • The healthcare experiences of Koreans living in North Carolina: a mixed methods study. 
  • The impact of Blue Cross conversions on health spending and the uninsured. 
  • 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 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on insurance coverage and cancer-directed treatment in HIV-infected patients with cancer in the United States. 
  • The incremental value of medical nutrition therapy in weight management. 
  • 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 socio-economic disparities in catastrophic health expenditure and health impoverishment in China: 2010 to 2016. 
  • Trends in Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs and Reimbursement Price Among US Patients With Private Health Insurance, 2006-2017. 
  • Trends in Insurance Status Among Patients Diagnosed With Cancer Before and After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Trends in US Health Insurance Coverage During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • Two steps forward, one step back: mycophenolate mofetil treatment for myasthenia gravis in the United States. 
  • Undertriage of Trauma-Related Deaths in U.S. Emergency Departments. 
  • Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needs. 
  • Urban health insurance reform and coverage in China using data from National Health Services Surveys in 1998 and 2003. 
  • 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. 
  • Utilization of acute care among patients with ESRD discharged home from skilled nursing facilities. 
  • Utilization of delivery care among rural women in China: does the health insurance make a difference? a cross-sectional study. 
  • Value-based insurance design: quality improvement but no cost savings. 
  • What's new in transplantation. 
  • Who pays? Mandated insurance coverage for assisted reproductive technology. 
  • Women's Coverage, Utilization, Affordability, And Health After The ACA: A Review Of The Literature. 
  • Yield of whole exome sequencing in undiagnosed patients facing insurance coverage barriers to genetic testing. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine