Abstract: Importance: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act expanded opportunities for …
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between patient-provider race concordance and the likelihood of being screened for suicide risk in Veterans Health Administration …
Abstract: Importance: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care spending has increased in the past decade, in part due to legislative changes that expanded access to …
Abstract: The Veterans Health Administration (VA) increasingly purchases community-based care (CC) to improve healthcare access, including behavioral health. In 2018, VA introduced …
Abstract: Objective: To determine the budget impact of implementing multidisciplinary complex pain clinics (MCPCs) for Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients living with …
Abstract: Few studies have examined the effect of informal care receipt on health care utilization and expenditures while accounting for the potentially endogenous relationship …
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine potential health disparities due to a broad reliance on telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors studied the impact of video-enabled …
Abstract: Aims: To compare healthcare costs and use between United States (US) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who experienced an …
Abstract: Importance: Medicare hospice beneficiaries discontinue disease-modifying treatments because the hospice benefit limits access. While veterans have concurrent access to …