Colorectal cancer screening test exposure patterns in US adults 45 to 49 years of age, 2019-2021

J Star, RL Siegel, AK Minihan, RA Smith… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Several organizations now recommend that individuals at average risk for colorectal cancer
(CRC) begin screening at 45 rather than 50 years of age. We present contemporary …

Pandemic‐era changes to medicaid enrollment and funding: Implications for future policy and research

L Dague, B Ukert - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 public health emergency led to federal legislation that changed the
landscape of Medicaid coverage for low‐income people in the United States. Policy …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in health care and prescription medication affordability in the US During the COVID-19 pandemic

SA Mein, LX Marinacci, ZN Zheng, I Ahmad… - JAMA Health …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In the US, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant rise in unemployment and
economic loss that disproportionately impacted low-income individuals. It is unknown how …

Financial toxicity in living donor liver transplantation: a call to action for financial neutrality

A Kaplan, ES Aby, S Scott, C Sonnenday, A Fox… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
After 2 decades of limited growth, living donor liver transplant (LDLT) has been increasingly
accepted as a promising solution to the growing organ shortage in the US. With experience …

Psychiatric boarding patterns among publicly insured youths evaluated by mobile crisis teams before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

CN Herrera, R Oblath, A Duncan - JAMA Network Open, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Psychiatric boarding occurs when patients needing intensive psychiatric
services who are already under clinical supervision experience delays in their admission to …

Continuous Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 public health emergency reduced churning, but did not eliminate it

DB Nelson, AL Goldman, F Zhang, H Yu - Health affairs scholar, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Preserving insurance coverage in the wake of pandemic-related job loss was a priority in
early 2020. To this end, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act implemented a …

State-to-State variation in Medicaid reimbursement for neurosurgical procedures: implications for healthcare access in vulnerable populations

MS Rallo, CN Berke, TC Shaw, JA Bunch… - Neurosurgery, 2024 - journals.lww.com
METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, maximum allowed physician reimbursement fees
for 20 common neurosurgical codes reported in the literature were obtained from the 2022 …

Medicare and Medicaid patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty have more complications and healthcare utilization than privately insured patients

W ElNemer, S Sharma, JP Avendano, MJ Cha… - Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Aims & objectives This study characterized the independent association between insurance
type and healthcare outcomes in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Materials …

Changes in postpartum insurance and care use by disability status during the COVID-19 pandemic

EL Eliason, M Bellerose - Disability and Health Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Background People with disabilities face unique health needs and barriers to perinatal care.
The pandemic may have worsened health care access disparities, while pandemic-era …

Transitioning from Medicaid to private health insurance: informing public and private sector outreach

AS White - Frontiers in Health Services, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study explored the lived experiences of transitioning from Medicaid to private health
insurance upon college graduation. Fifteen recent graduates of an urban, commuter, public …