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Insights from adults with disabilities on challenges obtaining home- and community-based services and other health care
Barriers to accessing home- and community-based services have persisted and worsened dramatically in the pandemic’s wake. Interviews of adults with disabilities find insurance barriers are a common reason for delaying or forgoing needed services and care.
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Barriers adults with disabilities face in accessing medical equipment and other health services
In June 2022, 15 percent of adults with disabilities reported they or someone in their household delayed getting or didn’t get the medical equipment or supplies they needed in the previous 12 months.
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Estimating variation in stay-level and facility-level profitability in Medicare’s inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) payment system
Findings show that payment-to-cost ratios are generally higher for patients with lower motor and cognitive functioning levels. These patterns could lead IRFs to steer their case mix toward certain types of patients for financial reasons.
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Moving upstream to achieve better and equitable health in Texas
Racial and ethnic disparities in health and nonmedical drivers of health are deeply entrenched. But health system players across Texas have made important progress in advancing health equity by addressing nonmedical drivers of health.
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Event: The social and political factors of health inequities in the US
Join Urban at noon on April 15 for a virtual discussion on sociopolitical factors affecting inequities in the US health system and how to address them.
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