NDLI: Medicare’s Policy on Carotid Stents Limited Use to Hospitals Meeting Quality Guidelines Yet Did Not Hurt Disadvantaged Groups

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Groeneveld, Peter W. Epstein, Andrew J. Yang, Feifei Yang, Lin Polsky, Daniel
Abstract	Medicare began covering carotid arterial stents in 2005 under an innovative policy that required hospitals to meet quality-of-care benchmarks prior to seeking reimbursement. By limiting hospital adoption, this policy may have inadvertently reduced availability of the stents among historically disadvantaged groups of Medicare beneficiaries. However, our analysis of hospitals that provided stents in 2005–2007 demonstrated that while 19–38 percent fewer hospitals offered them compared to similar technologies, availability of stents in localities with substantial poor, black, and/or rural populations was comparable to other areas. Medicare’s coverage policy was followed by limited diffusion of new technology without adverse equity consequences.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0320
Ending Page	321
Page Count	10
Starting Page	312
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02782715
e-ISSN	15445208
Journal	Health affairs (Project Hope)
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	30
Language	English
Publisher Date	2011-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Medicine(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Policy

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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Medicare’s Policy on Carotid Stents Limited Use to Hospitals Meeting Quality Guidelines Yet Did Not Hurt Disadvantaged Groups