Physician payment models are perceived to be an important strategy for improving health,
access, quality, and the value of health care. Evidence is predominantly from primary care …

Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase and Scopus databases for articles published from
January 2007 through October 2020. Search key words included 'alternative payment …

Background Despite the importance of prenatal care, quality measurement efforts have
focused on the number of prenatal visits, or prenatal care adequacy, rather than the services …

Government programs are often offered on an optional basis to market participants. We
explore the economics of such voluntary regulation in the context of a Medicare payment …

We study where privately insured individuals receive planned MRI scans. Despite significant
out-of-pocket costs for this undifferentiated service, privately insured patients often receive …

This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a
proprietary dataset on billing code applications for emerging medical procedures, we …

Background There are large racial inequities in pregnancy and early childhood health within
state Medicaid programs in the United States. To date, few Medicaid policy interventions …

Objective To examine the effect of Medicaid immediate postpartum long‐acting reversible
contraception (IPP LARC) reforms on self‐reported mental health among low‐income …

Importance Specialist physicians are key members of chronic care management teams; to
date, however, little is known about the association between specialist payment models and …

Medicare accounts for roughly 20 percent of medical expenditures in the United States and
is the dominant payer for many treatments. Consequently, Medicare payment policy may …