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Sunita M Desai

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Lewis A, Howland R, Horwitz L, Desai S
JAMA Health Forum . 2023 Sep; 4(9):e233197. PMID: 37738064
Importance: Medicaid patients with mental illness comprise one of the most high-need and complex patient populations. Value-based reforms aim to improve care, but their efficacy in the Medicaid program is...
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Desai S, Padmanabhan P, Chen A, Lewis A, Glied S
J Health Econ . 2023 May; 90:102770. PMID: 37216773
While a large body of evidence has examined hospital concentration, its effects on health care for low-income populations are less explored. We use comprehensive discharge data from New York State...
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Bond A, Dean E, Desai S
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2023 May; 42(5):632-641. PMID: 37126754
Biosimilar drugs-lower-cost alternatives to expensive biologic drugs-have the potential to slow the growth of US drug spending. However, rates of biosimilar uptake have varied across hospital outpatient providers. We investigated...
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Dragan K, Desai S, Billings J, Glied S
JAMA Health Forum . 2022 Oct; 3(9):e222919. PMID: 36218926
Importance: Given higher reimbursement rates, hospitals primarily serving privately insured patients may invest more in intensive coding than hospitals serving publicly insured patients. This may lead these hospitals to code...
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Desai S, Chen A, Wang J, Chung W, Stadelman J, Mahoney C, et al.
JAMA Intern Med . 2022 Sep; 182(11):1129-1137. PMID: 36094537
Importance: Rising drug costs contribute to medication nonadherence and adverse health outcomes. Real-time prescription benefit (RTPB) systems present prescribers with patient-specific out-of-pocket cost estimates and recommend lower-cost, clinically appropriate alternatives...
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Desai S, Wang J, Ananthakrishnan U, Ghai I, Mehrotra A, Bhargava H
JAMA Health Forum . 2022 Aug; 3(2):e214823. PMID: 35977272
This cross-sectional study describes the price differences between capsule and tablet or ointment and cream forms of prescription drugs for insured patients.
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Lin J, Li P, Doshi J, Desai S
JAMA Health Forum . 2022 Aug; 3(6):e221435. PMID: 35977245
This cross-sectional study assesses pharmacy participation in the 340B Drug Pricing Program following the 2010 expansion and the extent to which growth has occurred in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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Herrin J, Yu H, Venkatesh A, Desai S, Thiel C, Lin Z, et al.
BMJ Open . 2022 Apr; 12(3):e053629. PMID: 35361641
Objectives: High-value care is providing high quality care at low cost; we sought to define hospital value and identify the characteristics of hospitals which provide high-value care. Design: Retrospective observational...
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Desai S, McWilliams J
Am J Manag Care . 2021 Oct; 27(10):432-437. PMID: 34668672
Objectives: To evaluate whether hospital entry into the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which entitles eligible hospitals to discounts on drug purchases and intends for hospitals to use associated savings to...
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Blecker S, Adhikari S, Zhang H, Dodson J, Desai S, Anzisi L, et al.
J Manag Care Spec Pharm . 2021 Oct; 27(10):1482-1487. PMID: 34595945
Recent linkages between electronic health records (EHRs) and pharmacy data hold opportunity for up-to-date assessment of medication adherence at the point of care. To validate linked EHR-pharmacy data, which can...