In the past year, the Innovation Center has built the foundation of its evidence-based prevention pillar. The Center intends to maintain momentum with new prevention-focused payment models to advance ...
MPH, is a social science research analyst at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center where she supports a variety of payment and care delivery models in designing and ...
We have now seen AI going from renewing prescriptions to writing them in less than a year. The next step will likely be ...
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a drug manufacturer trade group, challenged the final rule on GLOBE ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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Alon Bergman, PhD, is an assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies provider behavior, medical ...
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 ...
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 ...
Together, these trends show fewer opioid prescriptions dispensed, less opioid dosage exposure, fewer patients exposed to ...