Sentence examples for mining medicare from inspiring English sources

A crowded field of start-ups mining Medicare clinical and claims data has seen success recently.

Fourth, for all five conditions, we used claims data for only one year prior to the REGARDS in-home visit to define pre-specified and data mining Medicare variables, instead of using all available claims.

Re "Mining Medicare: How One Hospital Benefited From Questionable Surgery" (front page, Aug. 12): The Tenet Healthcare fiasco makes clear the dubious morality of profit-oriented health care and the unsustainability of the third-party payer system.

Led by Nicholas Christakis, a professor in the sociology department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, researchers mined Medicare claims data to find the links that bind doctors into networks.

He cites a study that mined Medicare data between 2007 and 2012 to identify trends in opioid prescriptions.

"GM is the canary in the coal mine for Medicare and everyone else," said Sean P. McAlinden, chief economist at the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research.

In light of this enormous "excess burden" (the economists' term for this drag on the economy), it makes little sense for Uncle Sam to be financing Warren Buffett's Medicare (or mine, for that matter) or to be lavishing distributing subsidies across a wide swath of Americans instead of just those who truly cannot afford to pay for their own health care.

Chelsey is a new friend of mine who helps lead Medicare Operations at UnitedHealth Group.

Second, through a data mining procedure we identified additional Medicare variables, including diagnosis and procedure codes.

Indeed, many analysts expected Medicare officials to mine the trial data and approve payment only for a smaller subset of patients deemed by bureaucrats as most likely to be helped by the gadgets.

On Medicare, a political land mine, Carson has been similarly ambivalent.