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1. Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - To promote efficiency and affordability, recent efforts have aimed to incorporate measures of costs into … What are the potential unintended consequences of public reporting of cost measures? … copies will be recorded to document the approach to public reporting of cost measures. … Cost measure : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … Cost measure : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses

2. Public-Reporting-Cost-Measures Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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   January 13, 2014 - To promote efficiency and affordability, recent efforts have aimed to incorporate measures of costs … What are the potential unintended consequences of public reporting of cost measures? d. … Cost measure: A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of- pocket expenses … Cost measure: A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … -140113 public-reporting-cost-measures-protocol-140113.2

3. Horizon Scanning_Rapid Cost Analyses of Selected Potential High-Impact Intervention Reports (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2015 - We welcome comments on this report on the rapid cost analyses. … Number of cost analyses in each of 14 priority areas Priority Area Number of Topics With Cost Analysis … were negotiating discounts with various payers at the time of our cost analysis. … A retrospective cost comparison study by researchers at The Ohio State University, compared costs of … analysis.

4. Public-Reporting-Cost-Measures Technical-Brief (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2015 - In addition, we considered cost comparisons to a national or state benchmark insufficient for this report … Cost measure: A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … data,” “consumer,” and “cost measure.” … Other reported cost measures included average costs, median charges, median Medicare payments, and a … About one-quarter of the Web sites allowed cost comparisons across selected counties or regions within

5. Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health Technical Brief … We conducted a systematic scan to identify Web sites that report cost measures, and cataloged these measures … awareness, and the need for research demonstrating the impact of publicly reported cost measures. … Project Timeline Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health Jan 10, 2014 … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/public-reporting-cost-measures/technical-brief

6. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health (pdf file)
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   March 05, 2015 - Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health Technical … Brief Disposition of Comments Report Research Review Title: Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health … fit into the currentGQ#1 (description of cost measures). … Otherwise, the term refers to cost measures as that are the focus of the report. 61. … In box 1 (on page 4) we define what we mean when we say a cost measure: A financial measure of cost

7. Report of a Pilot Project: Rapid Cost Analyses of Selected Potential High-Impact Intervention Reports | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   November 01, 2017 - SHARE: Report of a Pilot Project: Rapid Cost Analyses … In 2014, AHRQ requested exploratory, rapid, cost analyses to elucidate the potential 1-year spend of … of the intervention; costs of a similar intervention; and costs of an alternative intervention used … Conclusions Limitations of these rapid cost analyses include the short timeframe to produce them, limited … Analyses of Selected Potential High-Impact Intervention Reports.

8. Environmental, Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Hospital Resources to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections (pdf file)
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   January 16, 2025 - or when the unit cost of purchasing was reduced. 17 Vozikis29 completed a cost analysis of 1,961 … the study’s cost analysis. … The single-use rhinolaryngoscope: An evaluation and cost comparison. … A cost comparison between reusable flexible and disposable laryngoscopes. … Cost comparisons for flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscopes Table 16.

9. Long-Term Care for Older Adults: A Review of Home and Community-Based Services Versus Institutional Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - (2) the impact of HCBS and NH care on outcome trajectories of older adults; and (3) the per person costs … of HCBS and NH care, costs for other services such as acute care, and family burden. … for physical function, cognition, mental health, mortality, use of acute care services, harms, and costs … Evidence was also insufficient for cost comparisons. … needed to draw robust conclusions about how the setting of care delivery influences the outcomes and costs

10. Long-Term-Care-Adults Executive (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2012 - process of choosing a mode and setting of care may be influenced by multiple factors such as access, affordability … Costs may include direct costs of care as well as resource use and family burden. … The supporting evidence from grey literature sources suggests that cost comparisons are typically incomplete … • Results were insufficient • Cost comparisons appear to be incomplete since they do not include … comparisons should account for all relevant public and individual spending on either side of the HCBS

11. Financing and Economics of Conducting N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 3) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/n-1-trials/research-2014-2
    August 01, 2019 - For example, the cost analysis included as “fixed costs” the applications for grant funding and ethical … The cost of preparing medications is listed as a fixed cost, though if medication acquisition costs were … of Study Fixed Costs/Patient Variable Costs/ Patient Cost Diff (n-of -1 Minus Control)/Patient … While the initial costs of development could be substantial, the per-trial cost could still be reasonable … (not considering the cost of the drug or drugs to be tested) and that these costs could be further lowered

12. Long-Term Care for Older Adults: A Comparative Effectiveness Review of Institutional versus Home and Community-based Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/long-term-care-adults/research-protocol
    December 01, 2019 - Assessing the Cost of Care Assessing costs in the context of LTC requires attention to expenses associated … Meaningful cost comparisons between HCBS and institutional care must determine and specify the exact … Meanwhile, some cost analyses of HCBS include all public subsidies received by HCBS clients (e.g., rent … We will consider costs separately from the question of effectiveness; this review will not look at cost-effectiveness … Costs may include direct costs of care as well as costs such as resource utilization and family burden

13. Long-Term-Care-Adults Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    December 20, 2011 - Assessing the Cost of Care Assessing costs in the context of LTC requires attention to expenses associated … Meaningful cost comparisons between HCBS and institutional care must determine and specify the exact … Meanwhile, some cost analyses of HCBS include all public subsidies received by HCBS clients (e.g., … cost-effectiveness. … Costs may include direct costs of care as well as costs such as resource utilization and family burden

14. Template for Draft Reports (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2013 - Evidence was also insufficient for cost comparisons. … Evidence was also insufficient for cost comparisons. … Need to make cost comparisons that account for LTC costs and all other relevant costs, including the … cost of room and board, costs of public subsidies (rent, transportation, and food stamps), cost of … and unobserved variables that may create a risk of bias Interest among researchers Duration Cost

15. Data Points #6: Utilization and cost of anticancer biologic products among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006-2009 | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on the top 100 Part D drugs with the highest total gross drug costs … In 2008, CMS reported on the top 10 Part D biologics by cost. … Annual average treatment costs of biologics can be up to 20 times greater than the costs of non-biologic … Quantifying the utilization and costs of anticancer biologics constitutes a necessary preliminary step … This brief therefore examines utilization and costs of the following classes of anticancer biologics

16. Information Technology Infrastructure for N-of-1 Trials (Chapter 5) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 01, 2019 - The incremental per-user cost in the current system is almost entirely driven by usage fees for the SMS … At one cent per message and with thousands of total users, the amortized IT cost per user per month is … Platform Economics When considering buying or building an n-of-1 platform, the total cost of ownership … Though initial development of a trial platform may be a fixed cost and born by a research grant or one-time … for eliciting data via SMS, telecom costs for phone/fax, and transcription costs for manually transcribing

17. Environmental, Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Hospital Resources to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/prevent-hai/draft-report
    February 01, 2025 - single-use of medical devices in acute care hospitals, but these may introduce substantial economic cost … Publications had to report data on clinical outcomes, economic costs, or environmental impact measures … For economic costs, almost all studies reported purchasing and reprocessing costs, but we noted large … variability in the inclusion of other types of costs (e.g., ancillary equipment, maintenance/repair, … Clinical outcomes and economic costs are reported far less than environmental impact, and most devices

18. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 246_Management of High-Need High-Cost Patients: A "Best Fit" Framework Synthesis, Realist Review, and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 246_Management of High-Need High-Cost Patients: … that ED, ambulatory intensive caring unit (aICU), and primary care models are associated with reduced costs … interventions for HNHC patients in reducing potentially preventable or modifiable healthcare use and costs … In relation to total costs, aICU and primary care–based models were associated with reductions (both … ED models were also associated with lower ED costs (low SOE) but no change in inpatient costs (low SOE

19. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2015 - In this update, we have also included the protocol for pilot rapid cost analyses of topics assessed … In addition, four of these topics were selected for more detailed cost analyses, which were performed … The types of information provided in each cost analysis are as follows: • Brief description of the … The analysts constructed cost models using this data alongside prevalence, uptake, efficacy, and pricing … Indexing Process Rapid Cost Analysis Pilot Protocol Appendix A.

20. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ahrq-healthcare-horizon-scan-protocol-operations-manual-151001.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - In this update, we have also included the protocol for pilot rapid cost analyses of topics assessed … In addition, four of these topics were selected for more detailed cost analyses, which were performed … The types of information provided in each cost analysis are as follows: • Brief description of the … The analysts constructed cost models using this data alongside prevalence, uptake, efficacy, and pricing … Indexing Process Rapid Cost Analysis Pilot Protocol Appendix A.