107 Finance
Medicaid & Medicare
Burke, R. E., Canamucio, A., Glorioso, T. J., Barón, A. E., & Ryskina, K. L. (2020). Variability in transitional care outcomes across hospitals discharging veterans to skilled nursing facilities. Medical Care, 58(4), 301–306. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001282
Burke, R. E., & Kinosian, B. (2020). Addressing the “total taxpayer” problem to translate Veterans Health Administration innovations in long-term supports. Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 24–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz029
FitzHenry, F., Eden, S. K., Denton, J., Cao, H., Cao, A., Reeves, R., Chen, G., Gobbel, G., Wells, N., & Matheny, M. E. (2020). Prevalence and risk factors for opioid-induced constipation in an older national veteran cohort. Pain Research and Management, 2020, e5165682. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5165682
Gidwani, R., Asch, S. M., Needleman, J., Faricy‐Anderson, K., Boothroyd, D. B., Illarmo, S., Lorenz, K. A., Patel, M. I., Hsin, G., Ramchandran, K., & Wagner, T. H. (2020). End-of-life cost trajectories in cancer patients treated by Medicare versus the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16941
Gidwani-Marszowski, R., Boothroyd, D., Needleman, J., Illarmo, S., & Asch, S. M. (2020). Comorbidity assessment is uneven across Veterans Health Administration and Medicare for the same patient: Implications for risk adjustment. Medical Care, 58(8), 717–721. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001329
Gidwani‐Marszowski, R., Faricy‐Anderson, K., Asch, S. M., Illarmo, S., Ananth, L., & Patel, M. I. (2020). Potentially avoidable hospitalizations after chemotherapy: Differences across Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration. Cancer, 126(14), 3297–3302. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.32896
Hebert, P. L., Wong, E. S., Reddy, A., Batten, A., Gunnink, E., Wagner, T. H., & Liu, C.-F. (2020). Events associated with changes in reliance on the Veterans Health Administration among Medicare-eligible veterans. Medical Care, 58(8), 710–716. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001328
Maust, D. T., Kim, H. M., Wiechers, I. R., Ignacio, R. V., Bohnert, A. S. B., & Blow, F. C. (2020). Benzodiazepine use among Medicare, commercially insured, and veteran older adults, 2013–2017. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, jgs.16825. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16825
Moyo, P., Zhao, X., Thorpe, C. T., Thorpe, J. M., Sileanu, F. E., Cashy, J. P., Hale, J. A., Mor, M. K., Radomski, T. R., Donohue, J. M., Hausmann, L. R. M., Hanlon, J. T., Good, C. B., Fine, M. J., & Gellad, W. F. (2019). Dual receipt of prescription opioids from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare Part D and prescription opioid overdose death among veterans: A nested case–control study. Annals of Internal Medicine, 170(7), 433. https://doi.org/10.7326/M18-2574
Venker, B., Stephenson, K. B., & Gellad, W. F. (2019). Assessment of spending in Medicare Part D if medication prices from the Department of Veterans Affairs were used. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(3), 431–433. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.5874
Veterans Choice
Finley, E. P., Mader, M., Haro, E. K., Noël, P. H., Bernardy, N., Rosen, C. S., Bollinger, M., Garcia, H. A., Sherrieb, K., & Pugh, M. J. V. (2019). Use of guideline-recommended treatments for PTSD among community-based providers in Texas and Vermont: Implications for the Veterans Choice Program. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 46(2), 217–233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-018-9613-z
Jones, A. L., Fine, M. J., Stone, R. A., Gao, S., Hausmann, L. R. M., Burkitt, K. H., Taber, P. A., Switzer, G. E., Good, C. B., Vanneman, M. E., & Zickmund, S. L. (2019). Veteran satisfaction with early experiences of health care through the Veterans Choice Program: A concurrent mixed methods study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 34(9), 1925–1933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05116-1
Massarweh, N. N., Itani, K. M. F., & Morris, M. S. (2020). The VA MISSION Act and the future of veterans’ access to quality health care. JAMA, 324(4), 343–344. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.4505
Rivera, S. (2019). Understanding the impact of choice claims in health policy among veteran patients [Docotral dissertation, Walden University]. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7728
Stroupe, K. T., Martinez, R., Hogan, T. P., Gordon, E. J., Gonzalez, B., Kale, I., Osteen, C., Tarlov, E., Weaver, F. M., Hynes, D. M., & Smith, B. M. (2019). Experiences with the Veterans’ Choice Program. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 34(10), 2141–2149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05224-y
Yoon, J., Leung, L. B., Rubenstein, L. V., Rose, D. E., Stockdale, S. E., Kaboli, P. J., & Chow, A. (2020). Use of the Veterans’ Choice Program and attrition from Veterans Health Administration primary care. Medical Care, 58(12), 1091–1097. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001401