236:'s 2013 Outstanding Article of the Year Award for her research. The following year, Hersch Nicholas led a study on the quality of care given to elderly Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes, long-term care facilities, or living at home. Her research team found that elderly patients living on their own, or with family members, who were cognitively impaired were treated more aggressively compared to their counterparts in living facilities. The findings were believed to be the first to "estimate the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia at the end-of-life and examine the associated healthcare costs and utilization for community dwellers." In a similar fashion, she worked alongside
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found that some cancer patients paid as high as 63% out-of-pocket for their treatments. This developed into her later research which focused on
Medicare fraud and the reasons behind it. Her team analyzed demographics of patients seen by excluded and non-excluded providers, and found that those excluded were more likely to be minorities, disabled, and dually-enrolled in Medicaid to supplement financial assistance for health care. As a result, these vulnerable populations were more likely to commit Medicare fraud due to their marginalization. In the same year, Hersch Nicholas collaborated with researchers at
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Nicholas stayed at the University of Michigan (UMich) as a faculty affiliate in the Survey Research Center at their Institute for Social Research. In this role, she led a study which found that patients who had completed advance directives were less
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to lead various studies on quality and care in hospitals. One of such studies worked with an initiative called the
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Nicholas focused on as an assistant professor was on Medicare fraud and out-of-pocket costs. In 2016, Hersch Nicholas co-led a survey-based study on beneficiaries of Medicare who developed cancer and paid out-of-pocket expenditures for their treatments. Her team
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Medicare Advantage? Managed Care and Medicare Quality, Cost and Enrollment
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