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

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

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 ...

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

Thomas C. Buchmueller ([email protected]) is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Helen G.

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

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 ...

Dylan B. Jackson ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Chad Posick is an associate professor of criminology and criminal ...

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

We examine key lessons on medical-dental integration from the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), ...

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 ...