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ATSDR Toxicological Profiles
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The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) wants to better understand the characteristics of chemicals with a range of potential health effects—including cancer, endocrine, neurological, hematological, hepatic, and renal—found on the…
Partner Effects: Analyzing Service Member and Spouse Drinking Over Time
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This study examines how service members and their spouses influence each other's drinking habits, while exploring other factors that contribute to alcohol use.
Interim Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Compass Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
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Improving the Economic Prospects of Low-income Individuals through Career Pathways Programs: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE)
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Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments
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Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…
Evaluating the Benefits of Additional College Loan Counseling
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Roughly two-thirds of students take loans to pay for college, and many have difficulty repaying them; more than 500,000 students default on their loans each year. To reduce repayment challenges and in response to a presidential directive to help…
Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies.
Exploring the Neighborhood‑Level Impact of Retail Marijuana Outlets on Crime in Washington State
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This article shows a modest increase in property crimes in Washington State neighborhoods where legal marijuana retail stores open.
Bundled Payment Episodes Initiated by Physician Group Practices: Medicare Beneficiary Perceptions of Care Quality
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