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Uninsured patients had the lowest odds of facility versus home discharge and home healthcare discharge versus home without home healthcare.
Harms include avoidable patient deaths, readmissions, longer lengths of stay, excess Medicare costs and forgone cost savings.
For the first time, the measure would enable the federal government to negotiate prices for medications covered by Medicare.
Older age was associated with lower odds of short length of stay in those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
But the biggest policy change — letting Medicare negotiate prices for prescription drugs — will not start to lower costs until 2025.
However, the introduction of new insulin products after 2015 was followed by substantial discounting practices that lowered net prices.
The fee cuts come at the same time as seniors receive a Social Security cost-of-living increase for 2023 of up to 9 or 10%.
Improved outcomes were seen, with no significant changes in Medicare spending.
Medicare will now cover the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy if patients using it also have heart disease, US officials announced Thursday.
Despite a drop in diabetes-related outpatient visits and testing, no negative association was found with glycemic control.