Abstracts tagged "Medicare"

Abstract Number: 1426 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Impact of TNF Inhibitor Cycling with Adalimumab and Etanercept vs Switching to Tofacitinib
James Harnett¹, Timothy Smith ¹, John Woolcott ², David Gruben ³ and Christopher Murray ², ¹Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ²Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ³Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral JAK inhibitor for the treatment of RA. It was approved for RA by the US FDA in Nov 2012. TNFi…
Abstract Number: 2333 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Risk of Incident Myocardial Infarction Among Disabled Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Were Beneficiaries of the Social Security Disability Insurance
Iris Navarro-Millan¹, Mangala Rajan ¹, Geyanne Lui ¹, Lisa Kern ¹, Laura Pinheiro ¹, Sebastian E. Sattui ², Lisa Mandl ³, Fenglong Xie ⁴, Jeffrey Curtis ⁵ and Monika Safford ¹, ¹Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ³Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, New York, NY, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA have high risk for myocardial infarction (MI). A meta-analysis showed that the age and sex adjusted pooled relative risk of MI…
Abstract Number: 885 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Herpes Zoster in Tofacitinib Users with and without Concomitant Methotrexate and Glucocorticoids
Jeffrey R. Curtis¹, Fenglong Xie¹, Sasha Bernatsky², Shuo Yang¹, Lang Chen¹, Huifeng Yun¹ and Kevin Winthrop³, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Division of Rheumatology, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: An increased incidence of herpes zoster (HZ) has been observed with Janus kinase inhibitors such as tofacitinib (TOF). However, among TOF users, a potentially…
Abstract Number: 894 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cancer Risk in Ankylosing Spondylitis in United States Medicare Beneficiaries: Detection of a Chronic Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use Signature
Sara Alehashemi¹ and Michael Ward², ¹Rheumatology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Few studies have examined risk of cancer in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) since the end of the radiation therapy era. With greater use of biologics,…
Abstract Number: 1242 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatologists Participating in the RISE Registry Succeeded in the First Year of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
Tracy Johansson¹, Ryan Larosa², Rachel Myslinski³, Norlita Brown¹, Lindsay Lewis¹ and Jinoos Yazdany⁴, ¹Practice, Advocacy & Quality, American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ²American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ³Practice, Advocacy, & Quality, American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ⁴University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), rheumatologists face financial repercussions through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) based on performance on…
Abstract Number: 2132 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
All-Cause Mortality, Hospitalization, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Related Complications in 2011-2015 Medicare Beneficiaries with SLE
Suying Li, Yi Peng, Tingting Gong, Kimberly M. Nieman and David T. Gilbertson, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis, MN
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at higher risk of complications such as heart attack and renal disease. We aimed to estimate all-cause…
Abstract Number: 2176 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Association of Gout with Incident Giant Cell Arteritis in Older Adults
Jasvinder A. Singh and John Cleveland, Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a vasculitis that affects large and medium sized arteries in people 50 years or older. Gout, the most common…
Abstract Number: 2226 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gout and the Risk of Incident Dementia in the Elderly: A Medicare Claims Study
Jasvinder A. Singh¹ and John Cleveland², ¹Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The pursuit of a link between gout/hyperuricemia and dementia has led to contradictory results. Most observational studies, including population-based studies, showed that hyperuricemia was…
Abstract Number: 293 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Temporal Trends and Factors Associated with Bisphosphonate Drug Holidays
Jeffrey R. Curtis¹, Rui Chen¹, Tarun Arora¹, Shanette Daigle¹, Robert Matthews¹, Huifeng Yun¹, Nicole Wright², Ayesha Jaleel³, Elizabeth Delzell⁴ and Kenneth Saag⁵, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmngham, AL, ⁴Retired - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵UAB, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Safety concerns related to osteoporosis (OP) medication use and temporary or permanent cessation of bisphosphonate therapy (e.g. ‘drug holidays’) have generated appreciable attention in…
Abstract Number: 519 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Marginal Structure Modeling of Association between Disease Activity and Hospitalized Infection Among Patients in a Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry
Huifeng Yun¹, Lang Chen¹, Jason Roy², Jeffrey D. Greenberg³ and Jeffrey R. Curtis¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Hopital Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France
Background/Purpose: Higher disease activity might be associated with a higher risk of developing infections among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Since no randomized trial has…
Abstract Number: 129 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of the Multi-Biomarker Disease Activity Score Results on Whether Rheumatologists Changed Biologic Therapy for RA Patients
Jeffrey R. Curtis¹, Kerri Ford², Lang Chen³, Huifeng Yun³ and Fenglong Xie⁴, ¹Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Crescendo Bioscience Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The multi-biomarker disease activity (MBDA) score is a validated test used to assess disease activity for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). How it is…
Abstract Number: 136 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Associated Comorbidities in the 2011-2015 Medicare Population
Suying Li, Julia T. Molony, Yi Peng, Kimberly M. Nieman and David T. Gilbertson, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis, MN
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory disease affecting about 1.5 million adults in the US (Helmick et al., 2008). Patients with RA have…
Abstract Number: 1113 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Older Patients with Gout Initiating Probenecid Versus Allopurinol: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Seoyoung C. Kim¹, Tuhina Neogi², Eun Ha Kang³, Jun Liu⁴, Rishi J. Desai⁵, MaryAnn Zhang⁶ and Daniel H. Solomon⁷, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy; Pharmacoepidemiologyand Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁴Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease including myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and heart failure (HF). Although both probenecid and…
Abstract Number: 128 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Call to Action: Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Medicare Rheumatology Beneficiaries
Gurjit S. Kaeley¹ and Sunita Dodani², ¹University of Florida, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, ²Cardiology and Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular (CV) manifestations of Rheumatological inflammatory diseases have become increasingly recognized, and, in some patients, might even constitute the initial presentation of a Rheumatological…
Abstract Number: 145 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Reduction in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSK-US) Payments in 2014: Effects & Consequences
Gurjit S. Kaeley¹ and Sunita Dodani², ¹Rheumatology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, ²Epidemiology, University of Florida, College of Medicine & College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, Jacksonville, FL
Background/Purpose: Rapid rise in the use of diagnostic and interventional MSK-US within the Medicare population between 2011 and 2013 has been documented amongst non-radiology…

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