This work focuses on the business-to-business interaction between a service requester and
a service provider in a healthcare environment. The requester is the primary caregiver …

The US health care system has recently begun to account for patients' unmet social needs in
care delivery and payment reform. This article presents a twenty-year qualitative case study …

Objectives To determine across and within hospital differences in the predictors of 365-day
admission frequency for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children at US children's hospitals …

Background ACOs consist of healthcare providers that accept responsibility for the cost and
quality outcomes of a defined population. The defining characteristic of an ACO is the …

Policy mobilities scholarship has comprehensively challenged the methodological
nationalism and rational orthodoxies of policy studies. Contributing to recent debates on …

Abstract Purpose The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has facilitated the
development of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), mostly through the …

France recently implemented a program to encourage greater collaboration among public
hospitals, which represent about 65 percent of total capacity, by placing them into regional …

moderate sedation, has submitted recommendations to the value of a new set of moderate
sedation Current Procedural Terminology codes to CMS. The agency is expected to provide …

TRICARE, the health benefits program created for beneficiaries of the US Department of
Defense, covers health care provided in military treatment facilities and by civilian providers …

The purpose of this study was to examine how the Medicare Access and CHIP
Reauthorization Act (MACRA) has improved health care delivery and to determine its impact …