The Independence at Home Demonstration tests whether providing a payment incentive to home-based primary care practices reduces Medicare spending and improves quality of care for chronically ill beneficiaries who need help from another person with activities of daily living.
This findings at a glance provides a brief overview of impacts from the first three years of the Maryland Total Cost of Care Model.
This report presents impacts from the first three years of the Maryland Total Cost of Care Model (MD TCOC). MD TCOC uses a hospital global budget and expands it to statewide accountability for cost and quality outcomes and broadens the incentives and supports to providers to transform care.
Examine whether the relationship between the pooled cohort equations (PCE) predicted 10-year risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and absolute risk for ASCVD is modified by socioeconomic status (SES).
This report examines the effects of the Independence at Home payment incentive. It also assesses whether home-based primary care affects spending and hospital use for dually eligible patients and describes the association between home-based primary care use and end-of-life expenditures.
This is the first report for the independent evaluation of the Maryland Total Cost of Care (MD TCOC) Model. The report findings describe model implementation in the first two years and will serve as a foundation for interpreting future impact estimates and what aspects of the model might drive them.
Recent clinical trials support de-escalation of adjuvant radiation therapy following lumpectomy in some older women with low-risk HR+ breast cancers planning to take endocrine therapy.
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of endocrine therapy (ET), radiation therapy (XRT), and combination ET + XRT as post-surgical treatment for older women with early-stage breast cancer from the societal perspective.
This commentary examines how personalized survivorship care pathways can be developed and implemented in the United States.
Post-radiation therapy salvage surgeries are challenging for surgeons due to tissue fibrosis. The woody hardness classification is valuable in differentiating the degree of neck stiffness, but its clinical utility has not been evaluated.