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By: Kaylyn Swankoski, PhD, Amanda Sutherland, PhD, Emily Boudreau, PhD, Suhas Gondi, MD, MBA, Vivek Kumar Garg, MD, MBA, Shannon Burdette, and Gosia Sylwestrzak, MA

Doctor and senior patient using digital tablet

Improving Primary Care Use by Seniors Through Value-Based Care

By: Anna Zink, PhD, David Wehrly, MA, Debra Bozzi, PhD, Amand Sutherland, PhD, Emily Boudreau, PhD, J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, Michael Chernew, PhD

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A smiling young male doctor is working in the office of the clinic using a laptop. Sitting in a white coat at the desk, typing, texting. Close-up photo.

A smiling young male doctor is working in the office of the clinic using a laptop. Sitting in a white coat at the desk, typing, texting. Close-up photo

Prescription Use and Spending After the Introduction of a Real-Time Prescription Benefit Tool 

By: Insiya B. Poonawalla, MS, PhD, Petir Abdal, PharmD, MBA, Mary Hayes, PharmD, BCPS, Isha John, PharmD, MBA, Monica Diaz, PharmD, RPh, BCPS, Suzanne Dixon, MPH, MS, RDN, and Andy Bowe, MPH

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Man making Injection in her Stomach. Semaglutide or Insulin Injection Diabetes Drug 

Health care resource utilization and costs in Medicare Advantage beneficiaries using glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists vs sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors

By: Punam Keller, PhD, Ted Robertson, MPA, Lee-Sien Kao, BA, Yong Li, PhD, Brandon Merrell, MSCS, MSBA, Emily Boudreau, PhD, Alex James, PharmD, BCPS, Lauren Esterly, PharmD, BCPS, Kaitlin Hanken, MPH, Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD 

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Incorporating Behavioral Science in Medication Adherence Communication

By: Vishal Saundankar, BPharm, MS, Mark Borns, PharmD, Kelly Broderick, PharmD, Birva Shah, OD, Stuart Cowburn, MS, Steven McFadden, PharmD, and Brandon Suehs, PharmD, PhD

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Annual Prevalence of Geographic Atrophy and Wet Age-Related Macular DeGeneration Among Medicare Advantage Enrollees in a US Health Plan

By: Sheryl A. Kluberg, Andrew L. Simon, Sarah M. Alam, Alexander Peters, Casie Horgan, Dongdong Li, Erick Moyneur, Elizabeth Messenger-Jones , Richard Platt, Cheryl N. McMahill-Walraven, Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Kimberly Daniels, Aziza Jamal-Alliale, Claire H. Pernar, Najat J. Ziyadeh Qianli Ma, Mano Selvan, O'Mareen Spence, Driss Oraichi, Harry Seifert, Huifeng Yun

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Risk of Incident Gout Following Exposure to Recombinant Zoster Vaccine in Us Adults Aged >50 years

By: Jessica Clifton, Emma Adair, Matthias Cheung, Calia Torres, Wendy Andrews, Brittany Dorsonne, Arayam Y Halilu, Elizabeth Heggan, Jackie Miefert, Gabrielle Riazi, Troy C. Dildine, Shelly Spears, Regina Greer-Smit, Ting-Pun, Neely Williams, Luzmercy Perez, Heather P. King, Maisa S. Ziadni, Sean Mackey, and Beth D. Darnall

The older man is sitting on the couch at home, has pain in the knee joint, holding his leg, osteoarthritis concept.

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PROGRESS: A Patient-centered Engagement Infrastructure and Multi-level Approach to Enrich Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in a National Randomized Online Behavioral Pain Treatment Study - The Journal of Pain

By: Melanie Canterberry, Jeremiah S Rastegar, Shireen Haq, Gosia Sylwestrzak, and Emily Boudreau

Race disparities in emergency department utilization: Analyzing the role of value-based payment among Medicare Advantage beneficiaries

By: Kaylyn E. Swankoski, Amanda Sutherland, Emily Boudreau, Yong Li, Melanie Canterberry, J. Michael McWilliams, Vivek Garg, and Brian W. Powers

Senior-Focused Primary Care Organizations Increase Access for Medicare Advantage Members, Especially Underserved Groups

By: Insiya B. Poonawalla, Linda Chung, Sarah Shetler, Heather Pearch, Suzanne W. Dixon, and Patrick Racsa

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Medication Adherence Star Rating Measures, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Cost

By: Jessica L Ryan, Jeremiah S Rastegar, Jessica M Dobins,  Deborah N Peikes, Anna Theodorou,  Brian Garcia, Bryan Loy, Ebony Bell, and J. Nwando Olayiwola

Senior woman picking medication from medicine bag put in a daily pill organizer box and closing the lids. Old woman taking care herself for health. Health and Medical concept.

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Sickle Cell Disease in an Older Adult Population: A Retrospective Review of Health Care Resource Utilization

By: Winston Liaw, Christine Bakos-Block, Thomas F. Northrup, Angela L. Stotts, Abigail Hernandez, Lisandra Finzetto, Pelumi Oloyede, Bruno Moscoso Rodriguez, Skye Johnson, Lauren Gilbert, Jessica Dobbins, LeChauncy Woodard, and Thomas Murphy

A Qualitative Analysis of a Primary Care Medical-Legal Partnership: Impact, Barriers, and Facilitators

By: Sonal Singh,  Noelle M. Cocoros, Xiaojuan Li, Kathleen M. Mazor, Mary T. Antonelli, Lauren Parlett; Mark Paullin, Thomas P. Harkins, Yunping Zhou, Paula A. Rochon, Richard Platt, Inna Dashevsky, Carly Massino, Cassandra Saphirak, Sybil L. Crawford, and Jerry H. Gurwitz

Adult Son Comforting Father Suffering With Dementia

Developing a PRogram to Educate and Sensitize Caregivers to Reduce the Inappropriate Prescription Burden in the Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease (D-PRESCRIBE-AD): Trial protocol and rationale of an open-label pragmatic, prospective randomized controlled trial

By: Patrick Rasca, MS, Claire Kiss, PharmD, BCPS, Lauren Stevens, MPH, MS, RD, and Jeffrey J. Ellis, PharmD, MS

A comparison of clinical, utilization, and cost outcomes between oral treatments for multiple sclerosis

By: Yong Li,  Kanchan Barve, Meghan Cockrell, Amal Agarwal, Adrianne Casebeer, Suzanne W Dixon, Insiya Poonawalla

Managing comorbidities in chronic kidney disease reduces utilization and cost

By: Patrick N. Racsa, Tori A Booth, Linda N Chung, Suzanne W Dixon, Insiya B Poonawalla

Association of Medication adherence quality measures for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia with cognitive decline

By: Noelle M Cocoros, Jerry H Gurwitz, Mark J Cziraky, Christopher B Granger, Thomas Harkins, Kevin Haynes, Xiaojuan Li, Lauren Parlett, John D Seeger, Sonal Singh, Cheryl N McMahill-Walraven, Richard Platt

Pragmatic guidance for embedding pragmatic clinical trials in health plans: Large simple trials aren’t so simple

By: Deborah N. Peikes; Kaylyn E. Swankoski; Jeremiah S. Rastegar; Stephanie M. Franklin; and Danielle J. Pavliv

Burden of health-related social needs among dual- and non-dual-eligible Medicare Advantage beneficiaries

By: Insiya B. Poonawalla, Yihua Xu, Rainelle Gaddy, Alex James, Matt Ruble, Salina Burns, Suzanne W. Dixon, Brandon T. Suehs

Anticholinergic exposure and its association with dementia/Alzheimer’s disease and mortality in older adults

By: Amanda Sutherland; Emily Boudreau; Andy Bowe; Qian Huang; Joshua M. Liao; Matthew Flagg; Deborah Cousins; Dana Drzayich Antol; William H. Shrank; Brian W. Powers; Amol S. Navathe

Association between a bundled payment program for lower extremity joint replacement and patient outcomes among Medicare Advantage beneficiaries

By: Erika M. Brown; Stephanie M. Franklin; Jessica L. Ryan; Melanie Canterberry; Andy Bowe; Matt S. Pantell; Erika K. Cottrell; Laura M. Gottlieb

Assessing area-level deprivation as a proxy for individual-level social risks

By: Jeremiah Rastegar; Victoria T Brown; Isha John; Suzanne W Dixon, Elizabeth Rodman; Jeffrey J Ellis; Insiya B Poonawalla

Mature Man Checking Blood Sugar Level With Glucometer

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Home versus outpatient hospital intravenous immunoglobulin infusion and health care resource utilization

By: Shuling Li; Brandon T Suehs; Alan Fu;  Laura Sangaré; Chris Kim; Victor M Gastanaga; Jiannong Liu; Heng Yan; Yihua Xu; Joseph Mikhael

Heart failure among patients with multiple myeloma treated with carfilzomib-based versus non-carfilzomib-based regimens in the United States by race

By: Jessica L. Ryan; Stephanie M. Franklin; Melanie Canterberry; Charron L. Long; Andy Bowe; Brandy D. Roy; Danielle Hessler; Benjamin Aceves; Laura M. Gottlieb

Association of health-related social needs with quality and utilization outcomes in a Medicare Advantage population with diabetes

By: Insiya B Poonawalla; Amanda Sutherland; Linda Chung; Suzanne W Dixon; Jeffrey J Ellis

Early vs late filling of new heart failure prescription and its association with avoidable hospital admissions

By: Brian W Powers; Jose F Figueroa; Melanie Canterberry; Suhas Gondi; Stephanie M Franklin; William H Shrank; Karen E Joynt Maddox

Association between community-level social risk and spending among Medicare beneficiaries: Implications for social risk adjustment and Health Equity

By: Insiya Poonawalla; Kanchan Barve; Meghan Cockrell; Amal Agarwal; Adrianne W Casebee;, Suzanne W Dixon; Yong Li

Transition-to-dialysis planning, health care use, and mortality in end-stage renal disease

By: Ting-Ying Huang; Carla Rodriguez-Watson; Tongtong Wang; Shawna R Calhoun; James Marshall; Jillian Burk; Young Hee Nam; Aaron B Mendelsohn;Aziza Jamal-Allial; Robert T Greenlee; Mano Selvan; Pamala A Pawloski; Cheryl N McMahill Walraven; Ashish Rai; Sengwee Toh; Jeffery S Brow

Using the IMEDS distributed database for epidemiological studies in type 2 diabetes mellitus

By: Dana Drzayich Antol; Richard Schwartz; Ariel Caplan; Adrianne Casebeer; C. Jo Erwin; William H. Shrank; Brian W. Powers

Comparison of health care utilization by Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare beneficiaries with complex care needs

By: Emily Boudreau; Richard Schwartz; Aaron L. Schwartz; Amol S. Navathe; Ariel Caplan; Yong Li; Andy Blink; Patrick Racsa; Dana Drzayich Antol; C. Jo Erwin; William H. Shrank; Brian W. Powers

Comparison of low-value services among Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare beneficiaries

By: Melanie Canterberry; Jose F. Figueroa; Charron L. Long; Angela S. Hagan; Suhas Gondi; Stephanie M. Franklin; Andrew Renda; William H. Shrank; Brian W. Powers

Association between self-reported health-related social needs and acute care utilization among older adults enrolled in Medicare Advantage

By: Nancy Haff; Niteesh K. Choudhry; Gauri Bhatkhande; Yong Li; Dana Drzayich Antol; Andrew Renda; Julie C. Lauffenburger

Frequency of quarterly self-reported health-related social needs among older adults, 2020

By: Charron L. Long; Stephanie M. Franklin; Angela S. Hagan; Yong Li; Jeremiah S. Rastegar; Bill Glasheen; William H. Shrank; and Brian W. Powers

Health-Related Social Needs among Older Adults Enrolled in Medicare Advantage: A National Survey

By: Suhas Gondi, BA; Yong Li, PhD; Dana Drzayich Antol, MS; Emily Boudreau, MPhil; William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS; Brian W. Powers, MD, MBA

Analysis of Value-Based Payment and Acute Care Use Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries

By: Patrick Racsa, MS; Teresa Rogstad, MPH; Brent Stice, MBA; Matthew Flagg, MBA; Chase Dailey, MBA; Yong Li, PhD; Brittany Sallee, BS; Karen Worley, PhD; Anup Sharma, MD; David Annand, MD