Insurance Coverage

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A health insurance tax credit for uninsured workers. 
  • ALS Multicenter Cohort Study of Oxidative Stress (ALS COSMOS): study methodology, recruitment, and baseline demographic and disease characteristics. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Assessing the consequences of delisting publicly funded community-based physical therapy on self-reported health in Ontario, Canada: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Association Between Insurance Status and Hospital Length of Stay Following Trauma. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study. 
  • Bladder Reconstruction Rates Differ among Centers Participating in National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 
  • Bridging the gap between financial distress and available resources for patients with cancer: a qualitative study. 
  • Changes in Young Adult Primary Care Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Changes in state prescription contraceptive mandates for insurers: the effect on women's contraceptive use. 
  • Commentary: The unknown benefit of complementary and alternative medicine. 
  • 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. 
  • Coverage with evidence development for Medicare beneficiaries: challenges and next steps. 
  • Decision on mandating coverage for ART must begin with accurate data. 
  • Dental visits to a North Carolina emergency department: a painful problem. 
  • Disparities in access to left ventricular assist device therapy. 
  • 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. 
  • Economic outcomes of breast cancer survivorship: CALGB study 79804. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Eligibility and accessibility of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of uterine leiomyomas. 
  • Emergency department revisits for patients with kidney stones in California. 
  • Emergency department use for eye care services and future directions in care. 
  • 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. 
  • Exploring the HIV continuum of care among young black MSM. 
  • Eye care in the United States: do we deliver to high-risk people who can benefit most from it? 
  • 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. 
  • 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 implications of coverage for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. 
  • For Third Enrollment Period, Marketplaces Expand Decision Support Tools To Assist Consumers. 
  • Genetic testing in nephrotic syndrome--challenges and opportunities. 
  • Health Care Disparities in Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation: Changes in Insurance Status After Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • 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 services use among Gulf War veterans and Gulf War era nondeployed veterans: a large population-based survey. 
  • 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)? 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • In support of equitable infertility health insurance. 
  • Insurance Coverage, Costs, and Barriers to Care for Outpatient Musculoskeletal Therapy and Rehabilitation Services. 
  • 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 disparities in the outcomes of spinal cord stimulation surgery. 
  • Insurance reimbursement for risk-reducing mastectomy and oophorectomy in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. 
  • 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 is associated with acuity of presentation and outcomes for thoracic aortic operations. 
  • Insurance status predicts acuity of thoracic aortic operations. 
  • 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. 
  • Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public. 
  • Mandated coverage for cancer-screening services: whose guidelines do states follow? 
  • Obesity as a disease: has the AMA resolution had an impact on how physicians view obesity? 
  • Occurrence of cancer among people with mental health claims in an insured population. 
  • Opioid abuse/dependence among those hospitalized due to periapical abscess. 
  • Overcoming barriers to care for hepatitis C. 
  • Palliative care in the inner city. Patient religious affiliation, underinsurance, and symptom attitude. 
  • 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. 
  • Private health insurance coverage and disability among older Americans. 
  • Private health insurance coverage for substance abuse and mental health services, 1995 to 1998. 
  • Race, insurance status, and traumatic brain injury outcomes before and after enactment of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Racial Variation in the Uptake of Oncotype DX Testing for Early-Stage Breast Cancer. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in care: the perspectives of cardiologists. 
  • Racial and socio-economic disparities in breast cancer hospitalization outcomes by insurance status. 
  • 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. 
  • Racial, ethnic, and insurance status disparities in use of posthospitalization care after trauma. 
  • Relationship of Affordable Care Act Implementation to Emergency Department Utilization Among Young Adults. 
  • Response to Letter: Comment on "Insurance Status, Not Race Is Associated With Use of Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach for Rectal Cancer". 
  • Seeing Health Insurance and HealthCare.gov Through the Eyes of Young Adults. 
  • State Insurance Mandates and Multiple Birth Rates After In Vitro Fertilization. 
  • 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. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • The Affordable Care Act reduces emergency department use by young adults: evidence from three States. 
  • The Association Between Primary Source of Healthcare Coverage and Colorectal Cancer Screening Among US Veterans. 
  • The Parity Paradigm: Can Legislation Help Reduce the Cost Burden of Oral Anticancer Medications? 
  • 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 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 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needs. 
  • 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. 
  • [Current concepts and trends in post-bariatric plastic surgery]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • 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