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1. Financial Assistance | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   Home Health Topics F Financial Assistance … U V W X Y Z Health Topics Financial Assistance … If you don't have insurance or need help with costs that aren't covered, financial assistance might

2. Data Points #11: Newly Medicare-eligible disabled: comparison of duals and nonduals | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . Note: This report is greater than 5 years old. … Low-income disabled Medicare beneficiaries may also receive full Medicaid benefits or assistance with … This increase may be due in part to the fact that in 1993, State-based assistance programs expanded to … with their Medicare expenditures, and those who receive no State assistance. … If higher usage by those with partial and incomplete assistance levels reflects pent up demand, then

3. Data Points #12: Health care use in the first six months of Medicare eligibility for elders: Impact of State support | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . Note: This report is greater than 5 years old. … Overview Approximately 10 percent of newly age-eligible Medicare enrollees receive assistance from … States either as full Medicaid benefits or as assistance with Medicare premiums or copayments. … In 1988 and again in 1993, assistance for poor older adults expanded from full Medicaid coverage only … with their Medicare expenses, and those who receive no State assistance.

4. Rapid Evidence Product_Assisted Home Dialysis in the United States: New Interest in an Old Idea (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2025 - and family assistance. … followed patients starting PD; described the need for assistance, the specific types of assistance … not receiving assistance. … : temporary assistance during the initial phase, temporary assistance for respite care, long-term … assistance, and assistance near the end of life.

5. Assisted Home Dialysis in the United States: New Interest in an Old Idea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   April 01, 2025 - Assistance can be provided by nurses, home health aides, family members, and/or other caregivers. … Thus, in this report we will use the term “assisted home dialysis” to refer to both staff assistance … and family assistance. … Effect of assistance on peritonitis risk in diabetic patients treated by peritoneal dialysis: report … Costs of home assistance for peritoneal dialysis: results of a European survey.

6. S77 (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2007 - We sought to determine how these programs’ different benefit structures and low-income assistance thresholds … Results: The income and asset thresholds for low-income assistance through Part D were reached by 4127 … However, these low-income assistance pro- grams have different qualifying thresholds and benefit struc … VA Low-Income Assistance The VA allows veterans to receive a waiver of copay- ment if the veteran’s … greatest for those veterans who qualify for Medicare assistance but do not qualify for assistance through

7. Newly Medicare-Eligible Disabled: Data Points #11 (pdf file)
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   June 01, 2011 - Beneficiaries who qualify for some assistance but not full Medicaid benefits are particularly high … with their Medi- care expenditures, and those who receive no State assistance. … Finally, we classified beneficiaries who received no State assistance as Nonduals (State Reported Dual … Receipt of State assistance varied widely by race; 31 percent of whites received assistance in contrast … and any State assistance (Figure 3, Figure 4, Appendix A).

8. Newly Medicare-Eligible Elders: Data Points #12 (pdf file)
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   June 01, 2012 - Impact of State support Approximately 10 percent of newly age- eligible Medicare enrollees receive assistance … from States either as full Medicaid benefits or as assistance with Medicare premiums or copayments … People who receive assistance with Medicare premiums and copayments, but not full Medicaid benefits … with their Medicare expenses, and those who receive no State assistance. … Most of these new enrollees receive no assistance from States in any form (premi- um, copayment assistance

9. Masks for Prevention of COVID-19 in Community and Healthcare Settings: A Living Rapid Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   January 01, 2022 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … For additional assistance, please  contact us . … For additional assistance, please contact us . … For additional assistance, please contact us .

10. Comparative Effectiveness of Management Strategies for Renal Artery Stenosis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … The key questions and principal definition of terms were determined with the assistance of a technical

11. Long-Term Care for Older Adults: A Comparative Effectiveness Review of Institutional versus Home and Community-based Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - needs of the recipients, and it includes both hands-on, direct care as well as general supervisory assistance … foster homes, small group homes, and residential care facilities Cooking, housekeeping, mobility assistance … Ultimately, LTC recipients require a wide range of assistance with tasks of daily living. … They require different levels of assistance with tasks of daily living. … Cooking, housekeeping, mobility assistance, which are all services provided by personal care assistants

12. Interventions for Adult Offenders With Serious Mental Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … setting to the community, evidence of low strength supported discharge planning with benefit-application assistance … Two interventions, discharge planning with Medicaid-application assistance and integrated dual disorder

13. Future Research Needs for Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … Purpose With the assistance of a panel of representative stakeholders, to identify and prioritize future

14. Future Research Needs for Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … Purpose With the assistance of a panel of representative stakeholders, to identify and prioritize future

15. Data Points #13: Use of preoperative MRI among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and locally invasive breast cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . Note : This report is greater than 5 years old. … by location (residence in big metropolitan areas and certain registries), race, and receipt of State assistance

16. Data Points 16: Types of Prostate Radiation: Changes across time and geography in the use of prostate radiation technologies for newly diagnosed older cancer patients: 2006-2008 (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2012 - 19.3 19.9 Midwest 23.6 23.6 22.9 23.4 South 41.0 41.7 42.8 41.8 West 15.1 14.7 14.9 14.9 State Assistance … State assistance: We designated patients as receiving State assistance if the beneficiary Medicare Entitlement … blacks (9.2%), American Indi- ans (14.4%), men living in the Midwest (9.4%) and men receiving State assistance … Rates were much lower among men older than 85 (6.5%), Hispanic men (14.0%), and men receiving State assistance … Older patients, blacks, American Indians, and men receiv- ing State assistance continue to receive

17. Surveillance and Identification of Signals for Updating Systematic Reviews: Implementation and Early Experience | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … Evidence-based Practice Center (SCEPC) and University of Ottawa Evidence-based Practice Center (UOEPC), with assistance

18. Data Points #19: Medication Use in Medicare | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - For additional assistance, please contact us . … plan (PDP) or Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans (MA-PD plans) received low-income subsidy assistance

19. Long-Term-Care-Adults Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    December 20, 2011 - Background Definition of Long-term Care: LTC refers to myriad services designed to provide assistance … needs of the recipients, and it includes both hands-on, direct care as well as general supervisory assistance … and/or chronic illness, as well as younger individuals with impairments that create a need for assistance … Ultimately, LTC recipients require a wide range of assistance with tasks of daily living. … They require different levels of assistance with tasks of daily living.

20. Prior Evidence-based Practice Center Reviewers | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 01, 2024 - reports prepared by the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) represent a significant effort, requiring assistance