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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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Intersections Between Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Marital Status Associations with Depression Symptoms [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: This study utilized survey-based methodology to estimate adjusted odds ratios (OR) and interaction effects using ordinal generalized linear model. Setting or Dataset: Data were derived from a survey dataset obtained from NHANES, specifically cross-sectional data from the 2013 to 2018 waves.

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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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Second Circuit Agrees that Copay Assistance Programs May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

FDA Law

Further, “there is little utility in comparing the language of the BIS to that of the AKS.”. Most of these cases have settled out of court (see, for example, Actelion Pharmaceuticals , 2018; Astellas Pharma and Amgen , 2019; Gilead Sciences , 2020). The Lesson of this Case.

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Disparities in Post-COVID Conditions among Persons with Disabilities: Findings from Primary Care Patients, 2019-2022 [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Persons with disabilities were more likely to experience serious illness, death, and adverse consequences by the COVID-19 pandemic. Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020. Measurements.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+.