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Data Scientist Leigh Goetschius, PhD, presented her research in this poster at the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 24-27, 2023, in Seattle. Executive Director Cynthia Woodcock presented this poster.
Federal and state agencies granted temporary regulatory waivers to prevent disruptions in access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, including expanding access to telehealth for MOUD. To examine changes in MOUD receipt and initiation among Medicaid enrollees during the pandemic, this serial cross-sectional study included Medicaid enrollees aged 18 to 64 years in 10 states from May 2019 through December 2020.
Senior Policy Analyst Shamis Mohamoud co-authored this article published in JAMA Health Forum.
In this study published in American Journal of Clinical Pathology, researchers found that, despite recent financial penalties, extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) pricing data are often unavailable or inadequate, and current available resources are unlikely to benefit the average health care consumer who requires ECP.. Hilltop Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, and Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, PhD, were coauthors of this study.
Predictive analytics are used in primary care to efficiently direct health care resources to high-risk patients to prevent unnecessary health care utilization and improve health. Social determinants of health (SDOH) are important features in these models, but they are poorly measured in administrative claims data. In this article published in Social Science & Medicine, Hilltop researchers Leigh Goetschius, PhD, Morgan Henderson, PhD, Fei Han, PhD, and colleagues found that increasing the granularity of area-based risk factors did not dramatically improve model fit or predictive performance. However, it did affect model interpretation.
This chart book explores utilization and expenditures for Medicaid-funded LTSS in Maryland for state fiscal years (FYs) 2017 through 2021. The focus of this chart book is on Medicaid nursing facility services, with one chapter that illustrates Maryland’s efforts at providing home and community-based services (HCBS) to an increasing number of Medicaid recipients who may otherwise be served in nursing facilities.
This report describes the services The Hilltop Institute provided to the Maryland Department of Health (the Department) under the Master Agreement between Hilltop and the Department. The report covers fiscal year (FY) 2022 (July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022). Hilltop’s interdisciplinary staff provided a wide range of services, including Medicaid program development and policy analysis; HealthChoice program support, evaluation, and financial analysis; long-term services and supports program development, policy analysis, and financial analytics; and data management and web-accessible database development.
Current federal regulation requires hospitals to report publicly negotiated prices for surgical procedures to improve transparency and reduce costs. The purpose of this study was to assess pricing variability for total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) as well as compliance with the federal mandate on reporting. Hilltop Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, and Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, PhD, were coauthors.
Hilltop Principal Data Scientist Fei Han, PhD, was a coauthor of this study published in Sensors. The researchers combined machine learning and statistical approaches to extract connectivity signatures, which can be utilized to distinguish aging brains and monitor possible treatment efficacy.
The Assistance in Community Integration Services (ACIS) pilot program began in late 2017 with the goal of reducing unnecessary health services use among Medicaid beneficiaries by providing tenancy and housing case management services through four lead entities (LEs). This infographic provides a brief overview of Hilltop’s 2021 review of the pilot program.
Starting January 1, 2021, most hospitals in the USA have been required by federal regulation publicly to post machine-readable data files of previously confidential prices. Initial compliance with the regulation has been low, with early reports indicating compliance levels of 17–35%. Published in Journal of General Internal Medicine, this study aims to assess changes in hospital price transparency compliance over time in an effort to (a) update the earlier literature and (b) provide evidence that can potentially guide policymakers seeking to better incentivize compliance with this regulation. Hilltop Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim, DVM, and Director of Analytics and Research Morgan Henderson, PhD, are the authors of this study.