Kenton J. Johnston

Oct 16, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Kenton J. Johnston |Eric Roberts |Jose F. Figueroa |José Figueroa

Helping Dual-Eligible Individuals Navigate Medicare and Medicaid Nearly 13 million US residents are dually eligible for and enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. They are among the nation’s most medically, socially, and financially at-risk individuals, comprising adults with low income who are living with disabilities, dementia, severe mental illness, multimorbidity, and functional limitations.

Sep 5, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Justin Barnes |Kenton J. Johnston |Kimberly Johnson |Fumiko Chino

Key PointsQuestion  Is state public assistance spending associated with overall survival (OS) in individuals with cancer? Findings  In this cohort study using data from 2 035 977 individuals with cancer in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database, public welfare spending was associated with higher 6-year OS overall and for non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White subgroups.