Aetna's Compassionate Care Program: Sustained Value for Our Members with Advanced Illness.

In 2004, Aetna, a national health insurer, launched the Aetna Compassionate Care Program (ACCP) targeting members diagnosed with an advanced illness with a view to increase access to palliative care and hospice services. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of ACCP on health care utilization and hospice enrollment among enrolled members. This was a retrospective cohort study comparing participants in ACCP to a matched control group using a propensity score method.

Postsurgical prescriptions for opioid naive patients and association with overdose and misuse: retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To quantify the effects of varying opioid prescribing patterns after surgery on dependence, overdose, or abuse in an opioid naive population.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Surgical claims from a linked medical and pharmacy administrative database of 37 651 619 commercially insured patients between 2008 and 2016.