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Alleviating Financial Hardships Associated with High-Deductible Health Plans for Adults with Chronic Conditions Through Health Savings Accounts by Park, Kristen E., Saluja, Sonali, Kaplan, Cameron M.

“…Background High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are becoming increasingly common, but their financial implications for enrollees with and without chronic…”
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Reliability of 30-Day Readmission Measures Used in the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program by Thompson, Michael P., Kaplan, Cameron M., Cao, Yu, Bazzoli, Gloria J., Waters, Teresa M.

“…Objective To assess the reliability of risk‐standardized readmission rates (RSRRs) for medical conditions and surgical procedures used in the Hospital…”
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Combined impact of Medicare's hospital pay for performance programs on quality and safety outcomes is mixed by Waters, Teresa M, Burns, Natalie, Kaplan, Cameron M, Graetz, Ilana, Benitez, Joseph, Cardarelli, Roberto, Daniels, Michael J

“…Three major hospital pay for performance (P4P) programs were introduced by the Affordable Care Act and intended to improve the quality, safety and efficiency…”
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Disparities in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Los Angeles County adults after vaccine authorization by Saluja, Sonali, Nok Lam, Chun, Wishart, Danielle, McMorris, Alec, Cousineau, Michael R, Kaplan, Cameron M

“…An equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout is a necessary piece of the public health strategy to end the current pandemic; however, vaccine hesitancy may present a…”
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Three years in - changing plan features in the U.S. health insurance marketplace by McKillop, Caitlin N, Waters, Teresa M, Kaplan, Cameron M, Kaplan, Erin K, Thompson, Michael P, Graetz, Ilana

“…A central objective of recent U.S. healthcare policy reform, most notably the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplace, has been to increase…”
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The impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic disparities in presentation with perforated appendicitis in children: A retrospective cohort study by Odegard, Marjorie N., Ourshalimian, Shadassa A., Chen, Stephanie Y., Russell, Christopher J., Obinelo, Adaeze U., Kaplan, Cameron M., Kelley-Quon, Lorraine I.

“…Children from racial and ethnic minority groups have higher prevalence of perforated appendicitis, and the COVID-19 pandemic worsened racial and ethnic…”
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Implementation costs of a community health worker delivered weight loss intervention in black churches serving underserved communities by Yeary, Karen H. Kim, Kaplan, Cameron M., Hutchins, Ellen

“…Black adults bear a disproportionate burden of the obesity epidemic but are underrepresented in weight loss research and lose less weight than their white…”
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Disability, race/ethnicity, and medication adherence among Medicare myocardial infarction survivors by Zhang, Yuting, PhD, Baik, Seo Hyon, PhD, Chang, Chung-Chou H., PhD, Kaplan, Cameron M., PhD, Lave, Judith R., PhD

“…Background Long-term medication therapy for patients with post–myocardial infarction (MI) can prolong life. However, recent data on long-term adherence are…”
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Effects of Medicare Part D coverage gap closure on utilization of branded and generic drugs by Liu, Judith, Zhang, Yuting, Kaplan, Cameron M.

“…The Affordable Care Act included a provision to gradually eliminate the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap between 2011 and 2020, which substantially…”
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Retrospective Analysis of the Impact of Adalimumab Initiation on Corticosteroid Utilization and Medical Costs Among Biologic-Naïve Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Spivey, Christina A., Winthrop, Kevin L., Griffith, Jenny, Kaplan, Cameron M., Qiao, Yanru, Postlethwaite, Arnold E., Wang, Junling

“…Introduction Treatment guidelines recommend low-dose corticosteroids as short-term therapy among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. However, it may be…”
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Trends over time in enrollment in non-group health insurance plans by tobacco use in the United States by Pesko, Michael F, Maclean, Johanna Catherine, Kaplan, Cameron M, Hill, Steven C

“…Abstract Healthcare.gov was created to facilitate the market for non-group insurance in states that did not establish their own marketplaces. In Healthcare.gov…”
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Differential Effects by Mental Health Status of Filling the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap by Liu, Judith, Zhang, Yuting, Kaplan, Cameron M.

“…The objective of this study was to study how changes in insurance benefit design affect medication use of older adults with mental disorders. US Medicare…”
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Capsule Commentary on Saloner et al., Price Transparency in Primary Care: Can Patients Learn About Costs When Scheduling an Appointment? by Kaplan, Cameron M.

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Smoking Cessation for Smokers Not Ready to Quit: Meta-analysis and Cost-effectiveness Analysis by Ali, Ayesha, Kaplan, Cameron M., Derefinko, Karen J., Klesges, Robert C.

“…To provide a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis on smoking interventions targeting smokers not ready to quit, a population that makes up…”
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The comparative effectiveness of two brief tobacco interventions in the U.S. Air Force: Perceived harm and intentions-to-use of tobacco products by Bursac, Zoran, Klesges, Robert C, Little, Melissa A, Linde, Brittany D, Popova, Lucy, Kaplan, Cameron M, Talcott, Gerald W

“…Brief health prevention programs have been shown efficacious in prevention of tobacco use initiation and re-initiation in the US Air Force. In this manuscript…”
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Capsule Commentary on Kesselheim et. al., Variations in Patients’ Perceptions and Use of Generic Drugs: Results of a National Survey by Kaplan, Cameron M.

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How Have 30-Day Readmission Penalties Affected Racial Disparities in Readmissions?: an Analysis from 2007 to 2014 in Five US States by Kaplan, Cameron M., Thompson, Michael P., Waters, Teresa M.

“…Background Thirty-day readmission penalties implemented with the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) place a larger burden on safety-net hospitals…”
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State policies limiting premium surcharges for tobacco and their impact on health insurance enrollment by Kaplan, Cameron M., Kaplan, Erin K.

“…Objective The Affordable Care Act allows insurers to charge up to 50% higher premiums to tobacco users, making tobacco use the only behavioral factor that can…”
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Anticipatory Behavior in Response to Medicare Part D's Coverage Gap by Kaplan, Cameron M., Zhang, Yuting

“…Under the standard Medicare Part D benefit structure, copayments for medications change discontinuously at certain levels of accumulative drug spending…”
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Most Hospitals Received Annual Penalties For Excess Readmissions, But Some Fared Better Than Others by Thompson, Michael P, Waters, Teresa M, Kaplan, Cameron M, Cao, Yu, Bazzoli, Gloria J

“…The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) initiated by the Affordable Care Act levies financial penalties against hospitals with excess thirty-day…”
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