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, 84: 285-294. PMID: 38864783, PMCID: PMC11343654, 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
2022
Trends In Treat-And-Release Emergency Care Visits With High-Intensity Billing In The US, 2006–19
Janke A, Gettel C, Koski-Vacirca R, Lin M, Kocher K, Venkatesh A. Trends In Treat-And-Release Emergency Care Visits With High-Intensity Billing In The US, 2006–19. Health Affairs 2022, 41: 1772-1780. PMID: 36469824, DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00484.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRelease ED visitsEmergency departmentED visitsNationwide Emergency Department SampleEmergency care visitsEmergency Department SampleProportion of visitsHealth care systemMore comorbiditiesCare visitsOlder patientsED careBilling practicesSerious diagnosisObservational studyUndifferentiated patientsPatient complexityCare servicesHealth statusCare systemVisitsPatientsEvolving roleReimbursement reformTreat
2020
Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home?
Venkatesh AK, Gettel CJ, Mei H, Chou SC, Rothenberg C, Liu SL, D’Onofrio G, Lin Z, Krumholz HM. Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home? Journal Of Applied Gerontology 2020, 40: 828-836. PMID: 32842827, PMCID: PMC7904961, DOI: 10.1177/0733464820950125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care visitsCare visitsEmergency departmentMedicare beneficiariesSNF staySNF servicesSkilled nursing facility residentsNursing facility residentsSkilled nursing facility servicesAcute care capabilitiesCross-sectional analysisNursing facility servicesHigher proportionAcute careMedical homeFacility residentsCare capabilitiesVisitsNumber of daysStayCareDepartmentFacility servicesBeneficiariesProportionCare Transition Decisions After a Fall‐related Emergency Department Visit: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ and Caregivers’ Experiences
Gettel CJ, Hayes K, Shield RR, Guthrie KM, Goldberg EM. Care Transition Decisions After a Fall‐related Emergency Department Visit: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ and Caregivers’ Experiences. Academic Emergency Medicine 2020, 27: 876-886. PMID: 32053283, PMCID: PMC7423638, DOI: 10.1111/acem.13938.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency department visitsPatient-caregiver dyadsCognitive impairmentED visitsDepartment visitsOlder adultsFall-related emergency department visitsInjury-related emergency department (ED) visitsInitial ED visitPrevention intervention trialTransitions of careSemistructured interview guideGeriatric AcuteED careOutpatient visitsIntervention trialsCare transitionsPatientsSentinel eventsVisitsCaregiversRecovery periodAdultsInjuryInterview guide
2019
A Retrospective Analysis of Nursing Home to ED Transfer Correspondence Length and ED Length of Stay.
Long SE, Marks SJ, Gettel CJ, Goldberg EM. A Retrospective Analysis of Nursing Home to ED Transfer Correspondence Length and ED Length of Stay. Rhode Island Medical Journal 2019, 102: 29-32. PMID: 31675784, PMCID: PMC7330887.Peer-Reviewed Original Research