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Cost Analysis and Policy Implications of a Pediatric Palliative Care Program
ContextIn 2010, California launched Partners for Children (PFC), a pediatric palliative care pilot program offering hospice-like services for children eligible for full-scope Medicaid delivered concurrently with curative care, regardless of the child's life expectancy.ObjectivesWe assessed the change from before PFC enrollment to the enrolled period in 1) health care costs per enrollee per month (PEPM), 2) costs by service type and diagnosis category, and 3) health care utilization (days of inpatient care and length of hospital stay).MethodsA pre-post analysis compared enrollees' health care costs and utilization up to 24 months before enrollment with their costs during participation in the pilot, from January 2010 through December 2012. Analyses were conducted using paid Medicaid claims and program enrollment data.ResultsThe average PEPM health care costs of program enrollees decreased by 4897 PEPM. PFC enrollees experienced a nearly 50% reduction in the average number of inpatient days per month, from 4.2 to 2.3. Average length of stay per hospitalization dropped from an average of 16.7 days before enrollment to 6.5 days while in the program.ConclusionThrough the provision of home-based therapeutic services, 24/7 access to medical advice, and enhanced, personally tailored care coordination, PFC demonstrated an effective way to reduce costs for children with life-limiting conditions by moving from costly inpatient care to more coordinated and less expensive outpatient care. PFC's home-based care strategy is a cost-effective model for pediatric palliative care elsewhere
Axiomatic Choice Theory Traveling between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules and Psychological Measurement, 1944-1956
An Analysis of Mistakes Made by Economists in their Study of Keynes's Diagram on Page 180 in the General Theory
J M Keynes, 'The State of the News (The Change in the Weight of the Evidence)' and the Weight of the Evidence: From Keynes's December, 1933 Student Lectures to Chapter 12 of the General Theory in February, 1936
J.M. Keynesss Criticisms, on Pages 2755276 and 2977298 of the General Theory, of the Marshallian, Neoclassical, Mathematical Approach to Partial Equilibrium (Ceteris Paribus) Analysis, Where Functions Having Only One Independent Variable Only: Keynesss Application of Systems of Simultaneous Equations in the General Theory in Chapter 15 and the Appendix to Chapter 19 Was Keynesss Breakthrough in Macroeconomics.
What is Wrong with the Following Statement? 'Just See What Hicks and Hansen Did with Keynes's Elaborate Analysis. Keynes Needed an Entire Book to Get His Point Across. Hicks and Hansen Needed Only a Few Pages and Got it All in One Diagram.' Arjo Klamer (2007). Hicks and Hansen Missed a Lot from 'Keynes's Elaborate Analysis'
J. Hicks's 'Famous' IS-LM Figures 1 and 2 on Page 153 of His 1937 Econometrica Paper are Based Directly on Page 207 of the General Theory
On J. M. Keynes’s Application of His IS-LM (LP) Model in His Reply to Viner in His Article the General Theory of Employment in February, 1937: Keynes Emphasized the Horizontal, Completely Elastic Range of the LM (LP) Curve
The KeynessHawtrey Exchanges of February and March, 1936 in Volume 14 of the CWJMK: Keynes's Theory was NOT that the Supply and Demand for Money Alone Determined the Rate of Interest
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