Publications by authors named "P Radensky"
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- * An economic impact model shows that implementing this analysis in only 20% of procedures could save up to $18.2 million annually for payers and $0.4 million for providers, with 100% adoption potentially saving $90.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively.
- * Overall, the analysis suggests that widespread use of this method not only benefits patient care but also results in significant cost savings for both healthcare payers and most providers.
A flexible approach to evidentiary standards for comparative effectiveness research.
Health Aff (Millwood)
October 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to identify and address research priorities for comparative effectiveness research. Among its many responsibilities, the institute has been charged with setting priorities, developing methodological standards, and communicating research results to decision makers. In this paper we consider how the institute can support the different standards for acceptable evidence used by various government agencies, providers, patients, and other decision makers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Many trials of new therapies for cardiovascular disease include economic measures to assess the impact of treatment on healthcare costs, however, it is difficult to compare results between trials due to variation in methods for assigning costs. Therefore we developed a standard library of inpatient hospital costs for major cardiovascular events commonly reported in trials for new cardiovascular therapies.
Design: Mean and median hospital charges for each event were calculated from Medicare admissions selected by ICD-9-CM codes from the most recent Healthcare Cost and Utilisation Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database available.