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Frakt A, Tachibana C.
Health Serv Res. 2023 Mar 05. PMID: 36872309
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Frakt A, Tachibana C.
Health Serv Res. 2023 Apr. 58(2):241. PMID: 36746612
Evaluation of Potentially Avoidable Acute Care Utilization Among Patients Insured by Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare.
Beckman AL, Frakt AB, Duggan C, Zheng J, Orav EJ, Tsai TC, Figueroa JF.
JAMA Health Forum. 2023 02 03. 4(2):e225530. PMID: 36826828
Therapeutic and Economic Benefits of Service Dogs Versus Emotional Support Dogs for Veterans With PTSD.
Richerson JT, Wagner TH, Abrams T, Skelton K, Biswas K, Illarmo S, McSherry F, Fallon MT, Frakt A, Pizer S, Magruder KM, Groer S, Dorn PA, Huang GD, Stock EM.
Psychiatr Serv. 2023 Jan 31. appips20220138. PMID: 36718602
Effect of a Veterans Health Administration mandate to case review patients with opioid prescriptions on mortality among patients with opioid use disorder: a secondary analysis of the STORM randomized control trial.
Auty SG, Barr KD, Frakt AB, Garrido MM, Strombotne KL.
Addiction. 2022 Dec 10. PMID: 36495477
If Patients Don't Use Available Health Service Pricing Information, Is Transparency Still Important?
Whaley C, Frakt A.
AMA J Ethics. 2022 11 01. 24(11):E1056-1062. PMID: 36342488
Detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in substance use disorder treatment.
Garrido MM, Jones DK, Woodruff A, Strombotne K, Palani S, Zahakos S, Adelberg M, Pizer SD, Frakt AB.
Health Serv Res. 2022 10. 57(5):997-1000. PMID: 35932224
Randomized Policy Evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM).
Minegishi T, Garrido MM, Lewis ET, Oliva EM, Pizer SD, Strombotne KL, Trafton JA, Tenso K, Sohoni PS, Frakt AB.
J Gen Intern Med. 2022 11. 37(14):3746-3750. PMID: 35715661
Frequency Of Indirect Billing To Medicare For Nurse Practitioner And Physician Assistant Office Visits.
Patel SY, Huskamp HA, Frakt AB, Auerbach DI, Neprash HT, Barnett ML, James HO, Mehrotra A.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 06. 41(6):805-813. PMID: 35666969
Effect of a Predictive Analytics-Targeted Program in Patients on Opioids: a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
Strombotne KL, Legler A, Minegishi T, Trafton JA, Oliva EM, Lewis ET, Sohoni P, Garrido MM, Pizer SD, Frakt AB.
J Gen Intern Med. 2023 02. 38(2):375-381. PMID: 35501628
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