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combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non …-emergency ambulance rides for patients traveling to and from dialysis facilities, with dozens of lawsuits alleging that Medicare …
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whether physicians' group affiliation matters for practice styles and patient health. Using Medicare inpatient claims data, we … who switch to groups that are less intensive. This change in Medicare spending largely stems from greater quantities of …
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Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care …
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opioid mortality--each prevented opioid death was replaced with a heroin death …
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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...
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utilize this natural experiment to estimate the effect of coal plant exposure on mortality and house values. Using a …
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daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …
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detailed and accurate picture of mortality patterns among people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Our analyses center on … comparison groups, are linked to Social Security Administration data on all-cause mortality from 2010-2022 to estimate the ….5 times the mortality risk of those who are housed, accounting for differences in demographic characteristics and geography …
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daily sulfur dioxide levels, we first characterize the short-run mortality effects of acute exposure during the time period … 1972-1988. Exposure causes two distinct mortality patterns: a short-run mortality displacement effect, and a persistent …
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