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Medicare Part B

Known as: Program, SMI, Programs, SMI, SMI Programs 
The voluntary portion of Medicare, known as the Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Program, that includes physician's services, home health care… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Observational intensity bias associated with illness adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claims
Objective To determine the bias associated with frequency of visits by physicians in adjusting for illness, using diagnoses… 
2011
2011
Hospice Care and Resource Utilization in Medicare Beneficiaries With Heart Failure
Background:Although hospice use may be increasing among heart failure patients, its association with both cost and intensity of… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Patient satisfaction, empowerment, and health and disability status effects of a disease management-health promotion nurse intervention among Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities.
PURPOSE To report the impact on patient and informal caregiver satisfaction, patient empowerment, and health and disability… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Variation in the Delivery of Health Care: The Stakes Are High
A generation ago, the remarkable variation in the delivery of health care across populations was brought to light [1]. Since then… 
1998
1998
A history of the Medicare hospice benefit.
Since the inception of the Medicare hospice benefit, hospice has marked a new approach to managed care. Its focus on cost… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
A Profile of Home Health Users in 1992
Recently, the use of home health services by Medicare beneficiaries has been growing. From 1987 to 1992, the percentage of all… 
1993
1993
Assessing the implementation of physician-payment reform
Background The Medicare program fundamentally changed its system of payment for physicians' services in 1992. Controversy over… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Provider response to Medicare's PPS: reductions in length of stay for psychiatric patients treated in scatter beds.
We used Medicare discharge data for the years 1984 and 1985 to analyze reductions in lengths of stay for psychiatric patients… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Patterns of Expenditures Among High Utilizers of Medical Care Services: The Experience of Medicare Beneficiaries From 1974 to 1977
The authors of this study examine temporal patterns of medical expenditures by Medicare beneficiaries. A random sample of 204,917… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
National hospice study analysis plan.
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