Evaluation of Low-Value Services Across Major Medicare Advantage Insurers and Traditional Medicare.
Duggan C, Beckman AL, Ganguli I, Soto M, Orav EJ, Tsai TC, Frakt A, Figueroa JF.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 04. 7(11):e2442633. PMID: 39485350
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State Policies Targeting Patient Brokering and Deceptive Marketing of Substance Use Disorder Treatment.
Garrido MM, Strombotne K, Nguyen P, Pizer SD, Frakt AB.
Subst Use Addctn J. 2024 Sep 29. 29767342241279194. PMID: 39344057
No Association Between Medicare Advantage Providers' Network Restrictiveness and Star Rating Between 2013 and 2017: An Observational Study.
Dai D, Feyman Y, Figueroa JF, Frakt AB, Garrido MM.
J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Jul 19. PMID: 39028405
Access to insurance navigation support through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP).
Garrido MM, Biko D, Dorneo A, Shafer PR, Frakt AB.
Health Aff Sch. 2024 Jun. 2(6):qxae072. PMID: 38911681
Disparities in Access to Outpatient Surgery Related to Removal of Procedures from Medicare's Inpatient Only List.
Tsai TC, Brownlee SA, Dai D, Soto M, Rosenthal N, Orav EJ, Frakt AB, Figueroa JF.
Ann Surg. 2024 Apr 25. PMID: 38660795
Association between physician-hospital integration and inpatient care delivery in accountable care organizations: An instrumental variable analysis.
Lin MY, Hanchate AD, Frakt AB, Burgess JF, Carey K.
Health Serv Res. 2024 Apr 23. PMID: 38654539
Restrictiveness of Medicare Advantage provider networks across physician specialties.
Feyman Y, Figueroa J, Garrido M, Jacobson G, Adelberg M, Frakt A.
Health Serv Res. 2024 08. 59(4):e14308. PMID: 38594081
HSR's outstanding reviewers in 2023.
Frakt A, Tachibana C.
Health Serv Res. 2024 Jun. 59(3):e14306. PMID: 38566177
From the Editor's Desk: Publishing in HSR in 2022.
Frakt A, Tachibana C.
Health Serv Res. 2024 Apr. 59(2):e14294. PMID: 38412994
Potential inequities in access to in-person SHIP counseling services.
Garrido MM, Dorneo A, Adelberg M, Biko D, Shafer PR, Frakt AB.
Am J Manag Care. 2024 02 01. 30(2):e46-e51. PMID: 38381548
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