From the Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School; the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Stanford University School of Medicine.
From the Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School; the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Stanford University School of Medicine.
From the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and New York University Langone Health.
Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York; the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, and the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
From the Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center; and the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
Several recently-developed prostate cancer (CaP) biomarkers are recommended per national guidelines, yet feasibility of obtaining these tests is unknown. We used a national database to assess insuranc...
Insurance policies regarding 4K Score, ExoDx, My Prostate Score, Prostate Cancer Antigen 3, Prostate Health Index, and SelectMDx as of January 1, 2022 were extracted from the policy reporter database....
A total of 186 insurance plans were identified among 131 payers. Of the 186 plans, 109 (59%) covered at least one biomarker, with prior authorization required for 38 (35%) of these plans. Prostate Can...
Coverage of novel CaP biomarkers are relatively robust for Medicare plans but sparse for non-Medicare plans, with the majority of non-Medicare plans requiring prior authorization. Non-Medicare eligibl...
Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Aus...
I estimate the impact of an information campaign on long-term care planning behaviors. I identify this effect using the staggered timing of the federal-state "Own Your Future" campaign, which urged in...
Health insurance stability among children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is essential for accessing health care services. This cross-sectional study used an extensive, multi-year, nationall...
This study investigates the association between insurance coverage denial and delays in care during pregnancy and postpartum. An online survey was administered in March and April 2022 to women who wer...
In India, regular monitoring of health insurance at district levels (the most essential administrative unit) is important for its effective uptake to contain the high out of pocket health expenditures...
We use the unit records of households from the latest round (2021) of the nationally representative National Family Health Survey to calculate the weighted percentage (and 95% CI) of households with a...
We found that only 2/5...
Despite substantial increase in population eligible for state sponsored health insurance and rise in private health insurance companies, nearly 60% of families do not have a single person covered unde...
Approximately half of postpartum individuals in the US do not receive any routine postpartum health care. Currently, federal Medicaid coverage for pregnant individuals lapses after the last day of the...
To assess whether health insurance coverage extension or improvements in access to health care are associated with postpartum health care utilization and maternal outcomes within 1 year post partum....
Medline, Embase, CENTRAL, CINAHL, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched for US-based studies from inception to November 16, 2022. The reference lists of relevant systematic reviews were scanned for pot...
A total of 25 973 citations were screened and 28 mostly moderate-risk-of-bias nonrandomized studies were included (3 423 781 participants) that addressed insurance type (4 studies), policy changes tha...
The findings of this systematic review suggest that evidence evaluating insurance coverage and postpartum visit attendance and unplanned care utilization is, at best, of moderate SoE. Future research ...
Migrant workers are recognized as a vulnerable group of population in the context of accessibility to healthcare services as they are likely to experience multiple challenges and barriers. This study ...
This cross-sectional, interviewer-administered study used a pre-designed questionnaire on migrant workers attending the Foreign Worker Health Screening Centre from June until September 2019. Data were...
The study obtained responses from 469 documented migrant workers (93.8%). 75.1% reported being aware of and having health insurance coverage; and of these, 57.1% were aware of the type of health insur...
A high proportion of documented migrant workers in Brunei Darussalam reported knowledge of having health insurance; however, there was lack of awareness on its actual coverage. By including migrants' ...
A manufacturer's benefit verification database was evaluated to ascertain United States health plan insurance coverage for implantable penile prostheses for erectile dysfunction....
All-payer and employer-sponsored health plan benefit verification databases were queried to determine implantable penile prosthesis approval status. For the all-payer analysis, data by payer were avai...
Benefit verification records for the all-payer database were available for 3,167 patients in 2019, 3,016 in 2020, and 2,837 in 2021. Insurance type was preferred provider organization (27.5%), Medicar...
Approximately 80% of patients had implantable penile prosthesis coverage. Employer exclusion was the most common reason for lagging coverage; rates of employer exclusion increased 29.3% from 2019-2021...
The people of Hawai'i have both high rates of health insurance and high levels of racial and ethnic diversity, but the degree to which insurance status and race and ethnicity contribute to health outc...
To evaluate the associations of insurance coverage, race and ethnicity (using disaggregated race and ethnicity data), and vaccination with outcomes for COVID-19 hospitalization....
This retrospective cohort study included hospitalized patients at a tertiary care medical center between March 2020 and March 2022. All patients hospitalized for acute COVID-19, identified based on di...
COVID-19 requiring hospitalization....
Electronic medical record data were collected for all patients. Associations among race and ethnicity, insurance coverage, receipt of at least 1 COVID-19 vaccine, intensive care unit (ICU) transfer, i...
A total of 1176 patients (median [IQR] age of 58 [41-71] years; 630 [54%] male) were hospitalized with COVID-19, with a median (IQR) body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by ...
In this cohort study of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those with government-funded insurance coverage (Medicare or Medicaid) had similar outcomes compared with patients with commercial insuranc...
