Adam Atherly
Biographic Data
| ID | 5538879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Atherly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Atherly |
| SIGNATURE | ATHERLY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6443-0761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Financial resilience of rural hospitals: Prepandemic vulnerabilities and Provider Relief Funds’ role during Covid‐19
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),…
Changes in healthcare spending attributable to obesity and overweight: Payer- and service-specific estimates
While total obesity related spending between 2006 and 2016 was relatively constant, by examining the effect of different obesity classes and overweight, it provides insight into spend for each level of obesity and overweight across service line and payer mix. Obesity class 2 and 3 were the main factors driving spending increases, suggesting that persons over BMI of 35 should be the focus for policies focused on controlling spending, such as preve…
The relation between selective contracting and healthcare expenditures in private health insurance plans in the United States
Cost-effectiveness of a statewide public health intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk
A community-based CVD intervention demonstrated to reduce CVD risk is cost-effective. This suggests that population-based public health programs may have the potential to complement primary care preventative services to improve health and reduce the burden of traditional medical care
Medical Costs of Fatal and Nonfatal Falls in Older Adults
OBJECTIVES: To estimate medical expenditures attributable to older adult falls using a methodology that can be updated annually to track these expenditures over time. DESIGN: Population data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and cost estimates from the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) for fatal falls, quasi-experimental regression analysis of data from the Medicare Current Beneficiaries Survey (MCBS)…
Value of Public Health Funding in Preventing Hospital Bloodstream Infections in the United States
Objectives. To estimate the association of 1 activity of the Prevention and Public Health Fund with hospital bloodstream infections and calculate the return on investment (ROI). Methods. The activity was funded for 1 year (2013). A difference-in-differences specification evaluated hospital standardized infection ratios (SIRs) before funding allocation (years 2011 and 2012) and after funding allocation (years 2013 and 2014) in the 15 US states tha…
Minimum Package of Public Health Services: The Adoption of Core Services in Local Public Health Agencies in Colorado
Objectives. We examined the effect of a state law in Colorado that required local public health agencies to deliver a minimum package of public health services. Methods. We used a longitudinal, pre–post study design, with baseline data collected in 2011 and follow-up data collected in 2013. We conducted means testing to analyze the change in service delivery and activities. We conducted linear regression to test for system structure effects on th…
Public and Private Health Insurance Premiums: How Do They Affect the Health Insurance Status of Low-Income Adults? Childless
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will substantially increase public health insurance eligibility and alter the costs of insurance coverage. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data from the period 2000–2008, we examine the effects of public and private health insurance premiums on the insurance status of low-income childless adults, a population substantially affected by the ACA. Results show higher public premiums to be ass…
Urban‐Rural Differences in the Availability of Hospital Information Technology Applications: A Survey of Georgia Hospitals
Context: Information technology (IT) has been identified as a potential tool for improving the safety of health care delivery. Purpose: To determine if there are significant differences between urban and rural community hospitals in the availability of selected IT functional applications and technological devices. Methods: A mailed survey of community hospitals in Georgia assessing the current availability of IT applications (54.6% response rate)…
Health Plan Switching among Members of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
This paper examines factors associated with switching health plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Switching plans is not uncommon, with 12% of members switching plans annually. Individuals switch out of plans with premium increases and benefit decreases relative to other plans in the market. Switching is negatively associated with age due to increasing switching costs associated with age rather than decreasing premium sensitivi…
An Analysis of Disenrollment From Medicare Managed Care Plans by Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work is to determine whether high-cost high-risk Medicare patients with diabetes in managed care plans disenroll more quickly than lower-cost lower-risk Medicare patients with diabetes. If high-cost high-risk patients with diabetes do disenroll more quickly, Medicare managed care plans benefit financially from favorable disenrollment. STUDY DESIGN: Time in a health maintenance organization (HMO) was modeled…
Completion rates of clients discharged from drug and alcohol treatment programs in Washington State
OBJECTIVES. The primary goal of this study was to analyze completion rates of clients in drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs in Washington State and to assess the factors associated with treatment completion. A secondary goal was to examine the utility of a state information system as a source of evaluative data. METHODS. Analyses were conducted of 5827 client records contained in the Washington State Substance Abuse Monitoring System, repr…
Completion rates of clients discharged from drug and alcohol treatment programs in Washington State
OBJECTIVES. The primary goal of this study was to analyze completion rates of clients in drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs in Washington State and to assess the factors associated with treatment completion. A secondary goal was to examine the utility of a state information system as a source of evaluative data. METHODS. Analyses were conducted of 5827 client records contained in the Washington State Substance Abuse Monitoring System, repr…
Minimum Package of Public Health Services: The Adoption of Core Services in Local Public Health Agencies in Colorado
Objectives. We examined the effect of a state law in Colorado that required local public health agencies to deliver a minimum package of public health services. Methods. We used a longitudinal, pre–post study design, with baseline data collected in 2011 and follow-up data collected in 2013. We conducted means testing to analyze the change in service delivery and activities. We conducted linear regression to test for system structure effects on th…
Completion rates of clients discharged from drug and alcohol treatment programs in Washington State
OBJECTIVES. The primary goal of this study was to analyze completion rates of clients in drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs in Washington State and to assess the factors associated with treatment completion. A secondary goal was to examine the utility of a state information system as a source of evaluative data. METHODS. Analyses were conducted of 5827 client records contained in the Washington State Substance Abuse Monitoring System, repr…
Health Plan Switching among Members of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
This paper examines factors associated with switching health plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Switching plans is not uncommon, with 12% of members switching plans annually. Individuals switch out of plans with premium increases and benefit decreases relative to other plans in the market. Switching is negatively associated with age due to increasing switching costs associated with age rather than decreasing premium sensitivi…
An Analysis of Disenrollment From Medicare Managed Care Plans by Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work is to determine whether high-cost high-risk Medicare patients with diabetes in managed care plans disenroll more quickly than lower-cost lower-risk Medicare patients with diabetes. If high-cost high-risk patients with diabetes do disenroll more quickly, Medicare managed care plans benefit financially from favorable disenrollment. STUDY DESIGN: Time in a health maintenance organization (HMO) was modeled…
Urban‐Rural Differences in the Availability of Hospital Information Technology Applications: A Survey of Georgia Hospitals
Context: Information technology (IT) has been identified as a potential tool for improving the safety of health care delivery. Purpose: To determine if there are significant differences between urban and rural community hospitals in the availability of selected IT functional applications and technological devices. Methods: A mailed survey of community hospitals in Georgia assessing the current availability of IT applications (54.6% response rate)…
Public and Private Health Insurance Premiums: How Do They Affect the Health Insurance Status of Low-Income Adults? Childless
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will substantially increase public health insurance eligibility and alter the costs of insurance coverage. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data from the period 2000–2008, we examine the effects of public and private health insurance premiums on the insurance status of low-income childless adults, a population substantially affected by the ACA. Results show higher public premiums to be ass…
Minimum Package of Public Health Services: The Adoption of Core Services in Local Public Health Agencies in Colorado
Objectives. We examined the effect of a state law in Colorado that required local public health agencies to deliver a minimum package of public health services. Methods. We used a longitudinal, pre–post study design, with baseline data collected in 2011 and follow-up data collected in 2013. We conducted means testing to analyze the change in service delivery and activities. We conducted linear regression to test for system structure effects on th…
Value of Public Health Funding in Preventing Hospital Bloodstream Infections in the United States
Objectives. To estimate the association of 1 activity of the Prevention and Public Health Fund with hospital bloodstream infections and calculate the return on investment (ROI). Methods. The activity was funded for 1 year (2013). A difference-in-differences specification evaluated hospital standardized infection ratios (SIRs) before funding allocation (years 2011 and 2012) and after funding allocation (years 2013 and 2014) in the 15 US states tha…
Medical Costs of Fatal and Nonfatal Falls in Older Adults
OBJECTIVES: To estimate medical expenditures attributable to older adult falls using a methodology that can be updated annually to track these expenditures over time. DESIGN: Population data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and cost estimates from the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) for fatal falls, quasi-experimental regression analysis of data from the Medicare Current Beneficiaries Survey (MCBS)…
Cost-effectiveness of a statewide public health intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk
A community-based CVD intervention demonstrated to reduce CVD risk is cost-effective. This suggests that population-based public health programs may have the potential to complement primary care preventative services to improve health and reduce the burden of traditional medical care
The relation between selective contracting and healthcare expenditures in private health insurance plans in the United States
Changes in healthcare spending attributable to obesity and overweight: Payer- and service-specific estimates
While total obesity related spending between 2006 and 2016 was relatively constant, by examining the effect of different obesity classes and overweight, it provides insight into spend for each level of obesity and overweight across service line and payer mix. Obesity class 2 and 3 were the main factors driving spending increases, suggesting that persons over BMI of 35 should be the focus for policies focused on controlling spending, such as preve…
Financial resilience of rural hospitals: Prepandemic vulnerabilities and Provider Relief Funds’ role during Covid‐19
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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