{"611995":{"#nid":"611995","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Medicare Patients Receiving Annual Wellness Visits More Likely to Undergo Key Preventive Health Services","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/danny-hughes\u0022\u003EDanny Hughes\u003C\/a\u003E, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics, was recently quoted in a \u003Cem\u003ERadiology Business\u003C\/em\u003E article entitled \u0026quot;Medicare Patients Receiving Annual Wellness Visits More Likely to Undergo Key Preventive Health Services.\u0026quot; The article disucssed a recent study he co-authored regarding the effectiveness of annual wellness visits in Medicare patients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;Promoting preventive care among the Medicare population is essential to enable the elderly to stay healthy, avoid or delay the onset of disease, and live productive lives,\u0026rdquo; co-author Danny R. Hughes, executive director of the Neiman Institute and a professor of economics at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in the same statement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.radiologybusiness.com\/topics\/care-delivery\/medicare-annual-wellness-visit-preventive-health-services\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-09-26 18:57:12","changed_gmt":"2018-09-26 18:57:12","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"parternship","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.radiologybusiness.com\/topics\/care-delivery\/medicare-annual-wellness-visit-preventive-health-services","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594793":{"id":"594793","type":"image","title":"Danny Hughes","body":null,"created":"1503421960","gmt_created":"2017-08-22 17:12:40","changed":"1539181733","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:28:53","alt":"Photo portrait of School of Economics professor Danny Hughes","file":{"fid":"226687","name":"DannyHughes_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DannyHughes_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DannyHughes_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":409377,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DannyHughes_headshot.jpg?itok=8YDejniN"}}},"media_ids":["594793"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175258","name":"Danny Hughes"},{"id":"170605","name":"Medicare"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}