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• Toward understanding EHR use in small physician practices

  Authors:Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Lorraine Johnson, Christopher Fleming, Rachel Shapiro, and Brenda NatzkeFrom:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20095,809 words Article This article presents insights into the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by small physician practices participating in a CMS pay-for-performance demonstration. Site visits to four States reveal slow movement...

• Medicaid expansions and the insurance coverage of poor teenagers

  Author:Lindsey Jeanne LeiningerFrom:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20095,597 words Article This article employs a comparison group research design to examine the effects of the Medicaid expansions of the late 1990s on the insurance coverage of poor teenagers. Results suggest that the expansions were...

• Clinician feedback on using episode groupers with Medicare claims data

  Authors:Fred Thomas, Craig Caplan, Jesse M. Levy, Marty Cohen, James Leonard, Todd Caldis, et al.From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20095,465 words Article CMS is investigating techniques that might help identify costly physician practice patterns. One method presently under evaluation is to compare resource use for certain episodes of care using commercially available...

• Colon cancer treatment costs for medicare and dually eligible beneficiaries

  Authors:Zhehui Luo, Cathy J. Bradley, Bassam A. Dahman, and Joseph C. GardinerFrom:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20095,930 words Article To estimate the cost attributable to colon cancer treatment 1 year after diagnosis by cancer stage, comorbidity, treatment regimen, and Medicaid eligibility, we extracted an inception cohort of colon cancer patients...

• Ventilator-associated pneumonia among elderly Medicare beneficiaries in long-term care hospitals

  Author:William BuczkoFrom:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20092,978 words Article Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a complication of ventilator care that produces excess, avoidable resource use and treatment costs. Control of VAP is an important aspect of quality of care improvement for...