The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

October 16th, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

October 1st, 2012
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Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

September 12th, 2012
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On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

September 12th, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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