in overall health care utilization over time. Some forces encourage more utilization;
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You Are Here: AHRQ Home > Data & Surveys > Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP HCUP Statistical BriefsCovering many healthcare cost & utilization topics Sign Up for Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project E-mail Updates...
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The National Data Book Health & Nutrition: Health Care Utilization 167 - Hospital Utilization Rates by Sex [Excel 23k] | [PDF 465k]
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In The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare (NBER Working Paper 10365), David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas use the onset of eligibility for the Medicare program at age 65 to estimate the effect of insurance coverage on health care...
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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) The HCUP (pronounced "H-CUP") family of health care databases and related software tools and products is made possible by a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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The Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) for ICD-9-CM is one in a family of databases and software tools developed as part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP),a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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ELECTRONIC ARTICLE: Health Care Utilization by Children With Chronic Illnesses: From the * Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation, United HealthCare, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;
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HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
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11/10/2009 - URAC’s New Uniform External Review Accreditation Demonstrates Health Plan Compliance with National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Model Act 10/07/2009 - URAC Honors First Health Care Stars! at 10th Annual Quality Summit Healthcare Organizations...
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OBJECTIVE: To compare clinical outcomes, healthcare utilization, and costs in ESA-treated and untreated patients with anemia of CKD who are not on dialysis. Utilization and costs per patient per month were compared between ESA and non-ESA patients. Generalized linear modeling identified predictors of total and...
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