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JAMA
January 2025
Department of Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan.
Importance: The emergency department (ED) offers an opportunity to initiate palliative care for older adults with serious, life-limiting illness.
Objective: To assess the effect of a multicomponent intervention to initiate palliative care in the ED on hospital admission, subsequent health care use, and survival in older adults with serious, life-limiting illness.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Cluster randomized, stepped-wedge, clinical trial including patients aged 66 years or older who visited 1 of 29 EDs across the US between May 1, 2018, and December 31, 2022, had 12 months of prior Medicare enrollment, and a Gagne comorbidity score greater than 6, representing a risk of short-term mortality greater than 30%.
Adv Ther
January 2025
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Introduction: Daily oral antipsychotics (OAPs) are the mainstay of schizophrenia treatment; however, long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) are associated with better treatment adherence and improved outcomes.
Methods: This study assessed the real-world comparative effectiveness of LAIs and daily OAPs using claims data from a nationally representative sample of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with schizophrenia. Antipsychotic discontinuation, psychiatric hospitalization, and treatment failure were compared relative to different reference groups using within-individual Cox regression models.
J Comp Eff Res
January 2025
Boston Scientific Corporation; 100 Boston Scientific Way, Marlborough, MA, USA.
This study assessed the economic impact of reducing one postoperative visit following inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP) implantation. Scenario analyses were used to model the effects of eliminating one 30-min IPP postoperative visit from the expected 2.5 visits accounted for by the American Medical Association resource-based relative value scale data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pharm Policy Pract
January 2025
College of Pharmacy, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy, St Louis, MO, USA.
Background: The sustainability of community pharmacies in the United States depends, in large part, on policies enacted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In 2003, CMS policy allowed retrospective direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees to manage costs. From 2024, only prospective DIR fees are permitted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngoscope
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A.
Objective: Identify differences in Medicare reimbursement changes for general otolaryngology, pediatric otolaryngology, head and neck oncology, laryngology, rhinology, otology, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, and sleep surgery subspecialties from 2013 to 2024.
Methods: Subspecialty-based procedures' facility prices and relative value units (RVUs) were sourced from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Physician Fee Schedule. Prices were adjusted for inflation, and the average percent change in facility price and RVUs for each subspecialty was calculated.
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