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The Impact of Commercial Insurance on Utilization and Cost of Healthcare Services among Patients with Cirrhosis

Creator:

Shi, Lu

Abstract:

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer death in the United States. Patients with cirrhosis are more likely to develop HCC. More than 80% of HCC patients are found have preexisting cirrhosis. The prevalence of cirrhosis increased from 0.26% to 0.3.% between 1999 to 2010 and...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

(PPPM) panel dataset that consisted of 220,680 person-months for the narrow definition of patients