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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Climate change adaptation has historically been defined narrowly, emphasizing actions such as built environment and early warning system improvements. The integration of social protection policies ...

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.

In this episode of A Health Podyssey, host Rob Lott speaks with University of Michigan's Mitchell Mead about his new Health ...

By expanding the “Mission Zero” framework into a cohesive network of National Security Hospitals, Congress and the White ...

Together, these trends show fewer opioid prescriptions dispensed, less opioid dosage exposure, fewer patients exposed to prescription opioids, and more patients receiving medications used for ...

Reducing health care spending and improving population health needs a comprehensive approach to replace the current ...

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 ...