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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 326, Issue 7402) Peer-ReviewedFar more money is spent on health care in the United States than in any other country. The marketplace rather than regulatory mechanisms is entrusted with promoting innovation and addressing suboptimal performance and...
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From:Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHealth care compliance programs have evolved since 1995 from a focus on Medicare billing rules to encompass all aspects of law and regulation pertaining to health care service delivery. Comprehensive compliance programs...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 56, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To determine whether vertically integrated hospital and skilled nursing facility (SNF) care is associated with more efficient use of postdischarge care and better outcomes. Data Sources: Medicare provider,...
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From:Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSociety's valuation of a healthcare outcome depends not only on the size of the gain in well-being (utility), but also on the severity of the initial condition. This seems to be a major problem with the conventional...
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 65, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedOn April 28, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formally launched a new initiative designed to adjust Medicare reimbursement on the basis of quality measurements. The Hospital Value- Based...
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSkills for Health (SfH), the sector skills council for the UK health sector, is asking those involved in healthcare education to share their views on a new quality assurance framework for healthcare education. The...
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From:The Futurist (Vol. 32, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedFinding a cure for aging could prove detrimental to society which would be forced to deal with the burdens of overpopulation, increased demand for health care and inadequate supply of skilled healthcare personnel. People...
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From:Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: P. Nagarjuna, V. Reddy, K. Sudhir, R. V. S.. Kumar, Srinivasulu. Gomasani Introduction: The primary health centers and community health centers (CHCs) offer an opportunity for early diagnosis and treatment,...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 33, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To test the hypothesis that surgical services combining relatively high levels of feedback and programming approaches to the coordination of surgical staff would have better quality of care than surgical...
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From:International Journal of Health Policy and Management (Vol. 7, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn this commentary on Williams and colleagues' paper, I will address some essential issues related to research on contextual factors that influence value decision-making in healthcare. Based on the presumption that...
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From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhat is the best way to pay providers to deliver health services? The research evidence strongly suggests that there is no single answer; rather, one must consider the incentives and disincentives inherent in...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe search for ways to stem the rising tide of health insurance premiums and improve the value of care being purchased has entered a new era. Bolstered by the explosion of information technology and prompted by the...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 33, Issue 12)WASHINGTON -- There has got to be a better way for Medicare to reward physicians who provide quality care. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is advising the Department of Health and Human Services to...
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From:Original Internist (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAnother year is coming to an end. The flu season has been a big headline again. Now we have a new crisis looming. Small children are being afflicted with unexplained "polio like symptoms". A curious virus is being...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 96, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAbstract When people think about trust in the context of health care, they typically focus on whether patients trust the competence of doctors and other health professionals. But for health care to reach its full...
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 53, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAnticipating cash flow arbitrage potential with budget capitation will permit healthcare organizations to make the most efficient use of cash flow as a revenue-generating instrument. Factors to be considered in this...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 49, Issue 8)NEARLY ALL CLINICIANS who are eligible to participate in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) track of the Quality Payment Program did so in 2018; most scored above the performance threshold and got a bonus....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to analyze the association between income level and health care access in Japan. Data from a total of 222,259 subjects (age range, 0-74 years) who submitted National...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 32, Issue 9)YES: Antitrust laws aim to protect consumers by encouraging competition. But in many communities, a few powerful health plans exercise monopolistic power over doctors and their patients. This allows them to determine...
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From:Contemporary Long Term Care (Vol. 26, Issue 5)Editor's Note: The following bills pertaining to issues affecting the long term care industry were making their way through Congress as of April 16,2003. Bills listed in last month's issue that do not appear here ha ye...