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Tuesday, December 20, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs
Dear John,
In case you missed it, a new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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was released ahead-of-print last week. Anne B. Martin and coauthors
review national health care spending in 2021 and find that spending in
the US grew 2.7 percent.
High-Intensity ED Billing
In recent decades, clinician billing practices for emergency department
(ED) visits have come under scrutiny as the proportion of visits in the
US billed as "high intensity" has grown.
Alexander Janke and coauthors use an all-payer national sample of EDs in
the US to describe overall trends in high-intensity billing
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among ED visits that do not result in hospitalizations.
Janke and coauthors report that the proportion of treat-and-release ED
visits in the US with high-intensity billing grew from about 4.8 percent
in 2006 to 19.2 percent in 2019.
Their analysis also shows "changes in the types of patients being
treated and released from the ED with clinically undifferentiated but
potentially more serious conditions, such as chest pain and abdominal
pain, accounting for a greater share in 2019 than less serious
conditions such as sprains and strains."
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Today on Forefront, Margaret E. O'Kane honors the legacy of the late
Paul M. Ellwood
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Jr., who advanced the idea of the health maintenance organization (HMO).
Andrew Twinamatsiko and coauthors write about the US Supreme Court
ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the
implications it has on health policy-related issues
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Daily Digest
Trends In Treat-And-Release Emergency Care Visits With High-Intensity
Billing In The US, 2006-19
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Alexander T. Janke et al.
Honoring A Health Care Visionary: Paul M. Ellwood, Jr.
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Margaret E. O'Kane
SCOTUS 'Major Question' Decision Cited In Litigation, Comments
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Andrew Twinamatsiko et al.
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