Victor J. Dzau ([email protected]), National Academy of Medicine, Washington, D.C. J. Michael McGinnis, National Academy of Medicine. In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National ...

Shifting from reducing MA capitation by an across-the-board coding intensity adjustment factor to Medicare Advantage ...

Consolidation of physician practices, largely driven by health systems, has motivated policy efforts to move care toward lower-price, non–health system settings. At the same time, however, private ...

Private equity (PE) acquisitions of health care providers are often framed as a monolithic intervention, but firms’ strategies for generating returns for investors may vary. In a ...

While evidence-based decisions are essential, they must be paired with effective public messaging that builds trust and ...

Given the prevalence of managed care, it’s incumbent upon the industry to ensure that there is a robust supplier pool.

Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending ...

Transforming physical design. Hospitals are also dangerous; patients are exposed to infection and injuries that could be prevented if hospitals had better designs. 16 An analysis of more than 600 ...

Sandra L. Decker ([email protected]) is a senior fellow in the Division of Research and Modeling, Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in ...

In a “rapid response” to the changing administration, authors write: “The current moment in American health care and politics presents new challenges but also new opportunities to advance the goals of ...

Rates Of Care Use Exhibit 1 shows the use of health care services at different sites based on insurance status. There are two key results. First, the uninsured do not use the ED substantially more ...