Complications of Ambulatory Procedures: Prevalence and Hospital Outpatient Department Variation.

Ambulatory procedures performed electively in hospital outpatient departments are of increasing complexity and constitute a growing share of total procedure volume. Despite their importance, little is known of the prevalence of complications from routine procedures once patients are discharged. This study utilizes a 100% Medicare Fee-for-Service claims data file for the years 2019-2022 to assess the relative frequency of hospital-based ambulatory procedures and 30-day patient postprocedure emergency room and hospitalization complication rates utilizing the Ambulatory Potentially Preventable Complication (AM-PPC) classification method.

Reach, engagement and effectiveness of in-person and online lifestyle change programs to prevent diabetes.

Background: COVID-19 has accelerated interest in and need for online delivery of healthcare. We examined the reach, engagement and effectiveness of online delivery of lifestyle change programs (LCP) modelled after the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) in a multistate, real-world setting.

Methods: Longitudinal, non-randomized study comparing online and in-person LCP in a large multistate sample delivered over 1 year.

Participation and weight loss in online National Diabetes Prevention Programs: a comparison of age and gender subgroups.

Early onset diabetes has adverse transgenerational effects, yet in-person National Diabetes Prevention Programs (NDPPs) have low reach among adults of peak reproductive age. We examined participation and weight loss with online NDPPs for younger versus older adults. Solera Health, Inc.

Medicaid patients seen at federally qualified health centers use hospital services less than those seen by private providers.

Federally qualified health centers, also known as community health centers, play an essential role in providing health care to millions of Americans. In return for providing primary care to underserved, homeless, and migrant populations, these centers are reimbursed at a higher rate than other providers by public programs such as Medicaid. Under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the role of the centers is expected to grow.

Diabetes disease management results in Hispanic Medicaid patients.

Objectives: To investigate outcomes of a telephonic nursing disease management program for Medicaid patients with diabetes residing in Puerto Rico.

Study Design: A 12-month, matched-cohort study.

Study Population: Four hundred and ninety (490) intervention group members matched to 490 controls.

Evaluation of a medicaid asthma disease management program.

This study evaluates 1-year outcomes of an asthma disease management program implemented in an Oregon Medicaid population. A non-randomized pre-post study, a matched case-control study, and a "programmatic effects" analysis were conducted. Compared to matched controls, the treatment cohort had significantly fewer emergency room visits per thousand (7 vs.

Health services outcomes for a diabetes disease management program for the elderly.

Our objective was to investigate the utilization, drug, and clinical outcomes of a telephonic nursing disease management (DM) program for elderly patients with diabetes. We employed a 24-month, matched-cohort study employing propensity score matching. The setting involved Medicare + Choice recipients residing in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

A matched-cohort study of utilization outcomes for an adult medicaid population enrolled in an asthma disease management program.

Few studies have examined the clinical and utilization impact of asthma disease management programs for Medicaid beneficiaries. This study examines utilization and clinical outcomes for an adult group of low- to moderate-risk patients with asthma. Propensity scores are used to construct matched samples of treated-control pairs in order to establish equivalent comparison groups and evaluate the effects of program participation.

A matched-cohort study of health services utilization and financial outcomes for a heart failure disease-management program in elderly patients.

Objectives: To investigate the utilization and financial outcomes of a telephonic nursing disease-management program for elderly patients with heart failure.

Design: A 1-year concurrent matched-cohort study employing propensity score matching.

Setting: Medicare+Choice recipients residing in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Diabetes disease management in a community-based setting.

Purpose: The medical cost of diabetes in the United States in 1997 was at least $98 billion. This study illustrates the behavioral change and medical-care utilization impact that occurs in a community-based setting of a diabetes disease-management program that is applied to program participants in a health insurance plan's health maintenance organization and preferred provider organization.

Design: A historical control comparison of diabetes-management participants.