Clinical trials: Medicare
Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes
Evaluation of Programs of Coordinated Care and Disease Management
This is a Congressionally mandated study. In the original study, 16 demonstration programs provided care coordination services to beneficiaries with chronic illness in Medicare's fee-for-service program.
- Conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes, Coronary Artery Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Trial name
- Coca (NCT00627029)
- Testing
- Care Coordination
- Where
- 15 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 18,277 people
- Sponsor
- Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Insurance Status/Stability
IMPACCT for Kids' Care
Health insurance is important for children. Public insurance programs are available to many children, but some families report being confused about how to get and keep this insurance.
- Trial name
- IMPACCT (NCT02298361)
- Testing
- Health insurance outreach IT tools
- Volunteers
- 27,251 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- OCHIN, Inc.
Autoimmune Diseases, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
A Trial of Academic Detailing to Promote Prescribing of Biosimilars
The goal of this trial is to learn if an interactive evidence-based educational outreach visits to clinicians who prescribe biologics change prescribing of biosimilar medications. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1.
- Conditions
- Autoimmune Diseases, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Psoriasis (PsO)
- Trial name
- NCT07221890
- Testing
- Offered an academic detailing session, Standard-of-care outreach from the insurance plan
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,325 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Economics, Fraud
The Effect of Informative Letters on the Prescription and Receipt of Opioids
Inappropriate prescribing exposes patients to health risks and results in wasteful public expenditures. This study will evaluate an approach to fighting abusive prescription: sending letters to suspected potentially inappropriate…
- Conditions
- Economics, Fraud, Delivery of Health Care, Health Expenditures
- Trial name
- NCT03202745
- Testing
- Patient Consequences Letter, Prescriber Consequences Letter
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Mild Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Due to Alzheimer's Disease
Medicare Anti-Aβ mAb Coverage With Evidence Development (CED) Study
The Anti-Aβ mAb CED Study is a prospective, longitudinal coverage with evidence development (CED) study using clinical data, patient assessments, and administrative claims data of the Medicare population, conducted in accordance…
- Trial name
- NCT06058234
- Testing
- Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against Amyloid for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8,680 people
- Sponsor
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services/ Coverage and Analysis Group
Economics, Fraud
The Effect of Informative Letters on the Prescription and Receipt of Seroquel
Abusive prescribing exposes patients to unnecessary health risks and results in wasteful public expenditures. This study will evaluate an innovative approach to fighting abusive prescription: sending letters to suspected…
- Conditions
- Economics, Fraud, Delivery of Health Care, Health Expenditures
- Trial name
- NCT02467933
- Testing
- Initial Informative letter, Followup Informative Letter
- Volunteers
- 5,055 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Diabetic Foot Ulcer
3C Patch® Medicare Claims Study
This prospective study will compare incidence rates of complete hard-to-heal diabetic foot ulcer healing in Medicare beneficiaries following application of the 3C Patch® plus usual care, tested against a historical control group…
- Trial name
- NCT03997526
- Testing
- 3C Patch
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Reapplix
Multiple Myeloma
Assessment of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Medicare Beneficiaries With Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematologic malignancy in adults. The current standard of care for MM patients fit to undergo high dose conditioning chemotherapy is an autologous HCT (autoHCT).
- Trial name
- NCT03127761
- Testing
- Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 544 people
- Sponsor
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research
Chronic Kidney Disease
Study to Evaluate the Prospective Payment System
To describe trends in treatment patterns of Small Dialysis Organizations (SDOs) prior to and during the implementation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS') policy [End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective…
- Trial name
- STEPPS™ (NCT01717989)
- Where
- 41 sites in United States, Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 2,248 people
- Sponsor
- Amgen
Arthroplasty, Replacement
The Impact of Medicare Bundled Payments
Bundled payments (BP) are a key part of Medicare's shift away from the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment model. The investigators propose to study a nationwide randomized-controlled trial (RCT) of bundled payments for…
- Trial name
- NCT03407885
- Testing
- Bundled payments for knee and hip replacement
- Volunteers
- 196 people
- Sponsor
- Amy Finkelstein
Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases
CV Risk Factors at Age 25-64 & Long-Term Medicare Costs
To assess in four large Chicago population cohorts whether young adult and middle-aged risk factor status has an impact not only on average annual Medicare costs, but also on cumulative and lifetime Medicare costs, to ages 70…
- Trial name
- NCT00006296
- Sponsor
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Dementia, Caregiver Burden
Comprehensive Home-based Dementia Care Coordination for Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles in Maryland
This Center for Medicare and Medicaid funded health care innovation award will implement the MIND at Home dementia care coordination program (called MIND at Home-Plus) through two community-based service agencies (Jewish…
- Trial name
- NCT02395731
- Testing
- MIND at Home-Plus Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 342 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Cancer
Addressing Disparities in Cancer Care for Latino Medicare Beneficiaries
To reduce Cancer health care disparities that exists among minority Medicare beneficiaries and to demonstrate cost effectiveness of patient navigation in reducing the burden of cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT00385866
- Testing
- cancer screening and health education, facilitation of Services to improve cancer screening
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,272 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Kidney Failure, Chronic
Spending and Outcomes for Complex Medicare Advantage Patients
This project will use data from a large network-model health maintenance organization that operates Medicare Advantage (MA) plans (CareMore) and fee-for-service Medicare data to (1) better understand the characteristics of…
- Trial name
- NCT02922361
- Volunteers
- 61,546 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Economics, Fraud
The Effect of Informative Letters on the Prescription and Receipt of Schedule II Controlled Substances
Fraud and waste is estimated to cost the American health care system nearly $200 billion each year, and the public Medicare and Medicaid programs about $60 billion each year.
- Conditions
- Economics, Fraud, Delivery of Health Care, Health Expenditures
- Trial name
- NCT02345434
- Testing
- Informative letter
- Volunteers
- 1,525 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab