2024
Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Surrounding Emergency Department Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage
Gettel C, Salah W, Rothenberg C, Liang Y, Schwartz H, Scott K, Hwang U, Hastings S, Venkatesh A. Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Surrounding Emergency Department Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2024 PMID: 38864783, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.04.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOut-of-pocketED visitsTraditional MedicareOlder adultsEmergency departmentMedicare AdvantageMedicare Advantage plan enrolleesMedicare Current Beneficiary SurveyEmergency department careTreat-and-releaseOut-of-pocket expensesOut-of-pocket health care spendingHealth care spendingCross-sectional analysisProportion of costsMedian totalEmergency careTreat-and-release emergency departmentBeneficiary SurveyMedian total costProportion of expensesCare spendingPlan enrolleesMedicareVisits
2023
The Cost Shifting Economics of United States Emergency Department Professional Services (2016–2019)
Pines J, Zocchi M, Black B, Carr B, Celedon P, Janke A, Moghtaderi A, Oskvarek J, Venkatesh A, Venkat A, Group A. The Cost Shifting Economics of United States Emergency Department Professional Services (2016–2019). Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2023, 82: 637-646. PMID: 37330720, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.04.026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNationwide Emergency Department SampleED visitsCommercial insuranceUninsured ED visitsEmergency Department SampleHealth Care Cost InstituteUnreimbursed careED cliniciansMedicaid visitsPatientsInsurance sourceMedicare visitsVisitsMedicaidHealth insuranceLongstanding effectsMedicareCliniciansProfessional servicesInsurance