... number of important case-mix and demographic factors were controlled for by the study design. Patients' Medicare claim records were analyzed to determine post-surgery rates of severe or less severe ...
... $144,298 per patient. One-year Medicare payments for inpatient care of primary device ... remain high, so periodic surveillance using Medicare claims may complement other postmarketing surveillance efforts ...
... approved acute stroke drug to any Medicare patients between 2005 and 2007, and a large portion ... dataset.
Kleindorfer and colleagues reviewed national Medicare claims-based database records for every ...
... Schmier, M.A., of Exponent Inc., Alexandria, Va., and colleagues conducted an analysis of Medicare claims and payments for glaucoma surgery between 1997 and 2006. The most common surgical treatments ...
... cancer between 1997 and 2003. They then calculated the timing and duration of radiotherapy using Medicare claims data, and performed analyses to estimate the association between tumor and clinical ...
... 2006, tracking each person's transition into Medicare. From these data they identified two separate groups ... before age 65.
Next, they analyzed Medicare claims data for these same individuals from age ...
... Smith, the study's first author. "The national Medicare database, because it's so comprehensive, allowed ... her M. D. Anderson colleagues used Medicare claims to examine the treatment history of women ...
... from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program of cancer registries and Medicare claims. They assessed overall adherence to guidelines as well as differences across patient ...
... years, the research team recorded the death and cause of death of participants through bi-monthly checks of Medicare claims and eligibility files, or from phone calls with the participants ...
... The team analyzed a 20 percent random sample of 2004 Medicare claims data, amounting to 23,887 patients who were 65 years or older. The researchers found that 44.5 percent of ...
... prostate cancers among the elderly.
The study used data from The National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS), Medicare claims and the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program. It ...
... Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, analyzed Medicare claims from 4,658,954 patients ages 65 to 90 who underwent general, orthopedic or vascular ...
... Hispanics. The data were compiled from a National Cancer Institute database that links Medicare claims with clinical information on cancer patients throughout the United States.
The researchers found ...
... to recent studies."
The Penn State researchers analyzed data between 1997 and 2005 from Medicaid and Medicare claims and payments one year before and after intervention for patients at CareSouth, a ...
... variety. Investigators matched the patients' data with their Medicare claims and followed them for two and one-half ... link so much clinical data with Medicare claims. What that essentially has given us ...
