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Occlusal Adjustment Risks - Articles
Persistent Post-Treatment (Apical) Periodontitis.
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Dr. Jason Hales
Posted
Wed 17 Aug 2011 11:36am
When endodontically treating a tooth experiencing symptoms to percussion, that is symptomatic apical periodontitis or acute apical abscess, it is reasonable and normal to expect those symptoms to persist a few days following treatment. I make it a point to explain to patients that this sensitivity is emanating from the periodontal ligament ...
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The Risk of (Improper) Risk Adjustment: Why The Doctor May See You Now
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JaanS
Posted
Tue 26 Feb 2013 8:27pm
The stats guys go to work
The Disease Management Care Blog continues to welcome blog posts from outside authors. This is another one, courtesy of Erik Tollefson, who works in the health policy field. He can be reached at erikDOTmDOTtollefsonATgmailDOTcom
As payers increasingly pursue reimbursement strategies that share risk ...
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Adjusted Risk Ratios
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Jason S.
Posted
Tue 07 Apr 2009 11:16pm
How do you estimate the specific risk a smoking has on the probability of being hospitalized. If smokers on average have lower income and less educational achievement, is smoking truly causing the increase in hospitalization or could the covariates fully or partially explain the increased hospitalization rates?
A paper by Kleinman and Norton ...
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Risks Specific to Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band
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Dr. Anshu Gupta
Posted
Tue 02 Jun 2009 4:39pm
The Lap-Band System is a much less complicated procedure than the other bariatric operations. Because of this, there are few potential complications possible immediately after placement of the Lap-Band System. There are some long-term complications possible that are unique.
Slippage
In order for the band to function prop ...
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Risk Adjustment Tools for Measuring Physician Quality
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Jason S.
Posted
Thu 12 Nov 2009 10:00pm
A paper by Thomas, Grazier, and Ward (2004) analyzes a variety of risk adjustment software products. Using these six risk adjustment products to calculate physician efficiency scores, they found “moderate to high levels of agreement were observed among the six risk-adjusted measures of practice efficiency.” However:
“ And even though our an ...
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Risk Adjustment Models
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Jason S.
Posted
Thu 09 Sep 2010 1:25am
Risk adjustment is important for many aspects of health care. Medicare uses risk adjustment to modify payments to Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans based on the health of the beneficiaries they cover. Private insurance companies can use risk adjustment to fine-tune capitation payments to physicians or determine a potential enrollee’s premium. ...
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Risk Adjustment: Predicting Future Expenditures
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Jason S.
Posted
Tue 02 Nov 2010 7:18am
Many states rely on managed care organizations (MCOs) to provide medical services for their Medicaid beneficiaries. Contracting out medical services to private providers relies on the government’s capacity to accurately predict expected cost of care for each beneficiary. This is typically done through risk-adjusted capitation rates.
Which ...
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Problems with Risk Adjustment
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Jason S.
Posted
Tue 30 Nov 2010 2:09am
To evaluate providers based on the health outcomes or the cost of care, one must attempt to evaluate dimensions of care which are strictly within the providers control. For instance, if a physicians treats two patients with breast cancer, but one patient has a more advanced form of breast cancer, one should take this difference into account. P ...
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