Paula H Song
Biographic Data
| ID | 5537054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula H Song |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula H |
| FAMILY NAME | Song |
| SIGNATURE | SONG P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0803-3563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Financial resilience of rural hospitals
PURPOSE: Rural hospitals struggling with prepandemic financial instability faced heightened challenges during COVID-19. While Provider Relief Funds (PRFs) offered essential support, their impact varied, highlighting the need to examine how prepandemic financial health influenced rural hospitals' financial performance during the pandemic. This study evaluates PRF's role across three hospital categories: financially strained (low operating margin),…
For Rural Hospitals That Merged, Inpatient Charges Decreased and Outpatient Charges Increased
PURPOSE: To determine whether inpatient and outpatient charges changed at rural hospitals after a merger. METHODS: Hospital mergers were derived from proprietary Irving Levin Associates data through manual review and validation. Hospital-level characteristics were derived from HCRIS, CMS Impact File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Hospital MSA file, AHRF, and US Census data. A difference-in-differences approach was used to determin…
Rural Hospital Mergers Increased Between 2005 and 2016—What Did Those Hospitals Look Like
The objective of this study is to determine whether key hospital-level financial and market characteristics are associated with whether rural hospitals merge. Hospital merger status was derived from proprietary Irving Levin Associates data for 2005 through 2016 and hospital-level characteristics from HCRIS, CMS Impact File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Hospital MSA file, AHRF, and U.S. Census data for 2004 through 2016. A discret…
The effect of an accountable care organization on dental care for children with disabilities
Access to dental care is a continuing challenge for children covered by Medicaid. ACOs that serve Medicaid children are well positioned to include dental services and could play an important role in improving access to dental care and increasing dental utilization
Symptom burden and life challenges reported by adult chordoma patients and their caregivers
Our study findings suggest a high symptom burden and life challenges among chordoma patients and their caregivers. This study provides preliminary, limited estimates of the prevalence of a wide range of self-reported symptoms and challenges that will inform the assessment of patient-reported outcomes in future clinical trials and help clinicians better manage chordoma patients' symptoms
Meaningful Engagement of ACOs With Communities
OBJECTIVES: Population health management (PHM) activities within health care organizations have traditionally focused on coordinating services for populations who present for care in physicians' offices. With the recent proliferation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), however, the reach of PHM has expanded. We aimed to study ACOs' evolving definitions of their patient populations, and how these definitions might be linked to different type…
Minding the Gap
OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in Emergency Department (ED) utilization between Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured. DATA AND METHODS: We use nationally representative data for adults age 19-64 from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. We calculate descriptive statistics highlighting differences in distributions of measurable characteristics and logit regressions describing differences in the coefficients of the characteristics between …
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Minding the Gap
OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in Emergency Department (ED) utilization between Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured. DATA AND METHODS: We use nationally representative data for adults age 19-64 from the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. We calculate descriptive statistics highlighting differences in distributions of measurable characteristics and logit regressions describing differences in the coefficients of the characteristics between …
Meaningful Engagement of ACOs With Communities
OBJECTIVES: Population health management (PHM) activities within health care organizations have traditionally focused on coordinating services for populations who present for care in physicians' offices. With the recent proliferation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), however, the reach of PHM has expanded. We aimed to study ACOs' evolving definitions of their patient populations, and how these definitions might be linked to different type…
Symptom burden and life challenges reported by adult chordoma patients and their caregivers
Our study findings suggest a high symptom burden and life challenges among chordoma patients and their caregivers. This study provides preliminary, limited estimates of the prevalence of a wide range of self-reported symptoms and challenges that will inform the assessment of patient-reported outcomes in future clinical trials and help clinicians better manage chordoma patients' symptoms
Rural Hospital Mergers Increased Between 2005 and 2016—What Did Those Hospitals Look Like
The objective of this study is to determine whether key hospital-level financial and market characteristics are associated with whether rural hospitals merge. Hospital merger status was derived from proprietary Irving Levin Associates data for 2005 through 2016 and hospital-level characteristics from HCRIS, CMS Impact File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Hospital MSA file, AHRF, and U.S. Census data for 2004 through 2016. A discret…
The effect of an accountable care organization on dental care for children with disabilities
Access to dental care is a continuing challenge for children covered by Medicaid. ACOs that serve Medicaid children are well positioned to include dental services and could play an important role in improving access to dental care and increasing dental utilization
For Rural Hospitals That Merged, Inpatient Charges Decreased and Outpatient Charges Increased
PURPOSE: To determine whether inpatient and outpatient charges changed at rural hospitals after a merger. METHODS: Hospital mergers were derived from proprietary Irving Levin Associates data through manual review and validation. Hospital-level characteristics were derived from HCRIS, CMS Impact File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Hospital MSA file, AHRF, and US Census data. A difference-in-differences approach was used to determin…
Financial resilience of rural hospitals
PURPOSE: Rural hospitals struggling with prepandemic financial instability faced heightened challenges during COVID-19. While Provider Relief Funds (PRFs) offered essential support, their impact varied, highlighting the need to examine how prepandemic financial health influenced rural hospitals' financial performance during the pandemic. This study evaluates PRF's role across three hospital categories: financially strained (low operating margin),…
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