Rationale: Understand the impact of insurance coverage on sleep apnea outcomes for patients awaiting upper airway stimulation. Objectives: Examine the natural history of impact …
Importance Current policies to divert emergency department (ED) visits for less medically urgent conditions to more cost-effective settings rely on retrospective adjudication of …
Importance Government and commercial health insurers have recently enacted policies to discourage nonemergent emergency department (ED) visits by reducing or denying claims …
LG Burke, SK Epstein, RC Burke, EJ Orav… - JAMA Internal …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Emergency department (ED) visits are common and increasing. Whether outcomes associated with care in the ED are improving over time is largely unknown to date …
LG Burke, RC Burke, SK Epstein, EJ Orav… - JAMA Network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is little evidence regarding how total costs of care associated with an emergency department (ED) visit have changed, despite increasing policy focus on the …
Background Understanding experiences with private important to improving the quality of health care coverage. Objective To examine the association of health with cost-related …
KW Lemke, K Pham, DM Ravert… - Am J Manag …, 2020 - ajmc.s3.amazonaws.com
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Analyses of emergency department (ED) use require visit classification algorithms based on administrative data. Our objectives were to present an …
Objective To improve the performance of International Classification of Disease (ICD) code rule‐based algorithms for identifying low acuity Emergency Department (ED) visits by using …
Objective The objectives of this study are to refine the measurement of appropriate emergency department (ED) use and to provide a natural observation of appropriate ED use …