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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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A Guide to Allergy Testing

Mesa Family Physician

Let your provider know about any medications or recent illnesses. Avoid caffeine or certain supplements that might affect your immune response. Wear comfortable clothing, especially for skin patch tests or subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) evaluations. Understanding Your Results Interpreting allergy test results can be tricky.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Jessie: Thank you.

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