Hospice care accounts for an increasing share of Medicare spending, paid by Medicare through a daily capitated rate that is not risk-adjusted. In recent years, for-profit entities, notably private ...
Capitation incentivizes Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to contract with providers willing to accept lower prices, and providers participating in MA are subject to managed care administrative burdens.
The process that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses to determine relative values for each physician service has been critiqued for undervaluing primary care relative to ...
Many environmental sustainability strategies are available to hospitals and health systems, but their full impacts are not well understood. We modeled the financial, health, and environmental impacts ...
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The November issue of Health Affairs features articles on hospitals, climate and health, and physician payment. The issue also includes articles in our ongoing series Age-Friendly Health (supported b ...
By expanding the “Mission Zero” framework into a cohesive network of National Security Hospitals, Congress and the White ...
In this episode of A Health Podyssey, host Rob Lott speaks with University of Michigan's Mitchell Mead about his new Health ...
Together, these trends show fewer opioid prescriptions dispensed, less opioid dosage exposure, fewer patients exposed to ...
PhD, is Chief Economist and Chief Regulatory Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is also a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and previously served as ...
Stephen J. Murphy, PhD, is an economist in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.