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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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Learning from primary care in Canada and Europe

The Health Policy Exchange

As a result, an almost entirely fee-for-service primary care system was gradually replaced with a mixture of salary-based, capitation-based, and blended fee-for-service payment models by 2012.

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Barton Associates’ Dan Bassani Named to SIA’s 2025 “40 Under 40” List

Barton Associates

Since joining Barton in 2012, Bassani has been instrumental in driving company growth and modernizing sales operations. Bassani joined Barton as an account manager and quickly distinguished himself as a high-impact leader. This recognition is well deserved.”

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Primary Care Perspectives on Access to Specialty Care in Rural Communities: A Mixed-Method Study [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

From 2012 to 2022, rural supply decreased for pulmonologists (-41.7%), neurologists (-16.5%), and cardiologists (-5.6%); oncologists increased (20.0%). Objective: This study sought to analyze changes in the U.S. for t-tests or Chi-square tests as appropriate). We interviewed 18 rural health system leaders across the U.S.,

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Long-Term Cancer Risk After Active Surveillance

Physician's Weekly

Analyses were stratified by age at diagnosis (<30 years, ≥30 years), calendar period (1998–2012, 2013–2020), and index cytology (non-high-grade, high-grade). The primary outcome was vulvar, vaginal, anal cancer, or precancer. Secondary outcomes included low-grade lesions of the vulva, vagina, and anus.

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Fast Facts: Management of sleep apnea in children

PEMBlog

Management is based on data assessed via the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) which is the combined average number of apneas and hypopneas that occur per hour of sleep during a polysomnography (sleep study). Shiffman; Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Pediatrics September 2012; 130 (3): 576–584.

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FDA Inspections: Lesson 1 – Interviewing Employees

FDA Law Blog

Although FDA has long taken the position that it has broad authority in how it conducts its inspections, it was not until 2012 that Congress put some teeth behind FDAs policy position. Using publicly available examples, these lessons will illustrate potential pitfalls and strategies for interacting with FDA during and after an inspection.